Meta‐analysis in transfusion medicine

Meta-analysis in clinical trials

1986 • 36,193 citations

Statistical Aspects of the Analysis of Data From Retrospective Studies of Disease

1959 • 14,850 citations

Statistical Methods for Meta-Analysis.

1986 • 4,563 citations

Primary, Secondary, and Meta-Analysis of Research

1976 • 4,467 citations

Meta-analysis in social research

1982 • 3,988 citations

Beta blockade during and after myocardial infarction: An overview of the randomized trials

1985 • 3,248 citations

Publication bias in clinical research

1991 • 3,034 citations

Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient. I. Introduction and design

1976 • 2,290 citations

Methods for Trend Estimation from Summarized Dose-Response Data, with Applications to Meta-Analysis

1992 • 2,163 citations

Meta-analysis of psychotherapy outcome studies.

1977 • 2,133 citations

Epidemiologic Research: Principles and Quantitative Methods.

1983 • 1,935 citations

Epidemiology in Medicine.

1988 • 1,933 citations

The Importance of Beta, the Type II Error and Sample Size in the Design and Interpretation of the Randomized Control Trial

1978 • 1,634 citations

QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN THE REVIEW OF EPIDEMIOLOGIC LITERATURE1

1987 • 1,619 citations

A META-ANALYSIS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE PREVENTION OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE

1990 • 1,411 citations

A method for assessing the quality of a randomized control trial

1981 • 1,370 citations

The Existence of Publication Bias and Risk Factors for Its Occurrence

1990 • 1,335 citations

Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials

1987 • 1,278 citations

Summing Up

1984 • 1,276 citations

Meta-Analysis in Clinical Research

1987 • 1,269 citations

Methods for combining randomized clinical trials: Strengths and limitations

1987 • 998 citations

Clinical epidemiology: The essentials

1988 • 984 citations

Clinical Epidemiology: The Architecture of Clinical Research.

1985 • 952 citations

Systematic Review: Why sources of heterogeneity in meta-analysis should be investigated

1994 • 947 citations

Factors Influencing Publication of Research Results

1992 • 838 citations

The Handbook of Research Synthesis

1995 • 798 citations

Publication Bias: A Problem in Interpreting Medical Data

1988 • 773 citations

Meta-Analysis

1986 • 758 citations

Publication bias: the case for an international registry of clinical trials.

1986 • 750 citations

Publication bias and clinical trials

1987 • 715 citations

Incorporating variations in the quality of individual randomized trials into meta-analysis

1992 • 649 citations

A Meta-analysis of the Effect of Estrogen Replacement Therapy on the Risk of Breast Cancer

1991 • 639 citations

Effects of adjuvant tamoxifen and of cytotoxic therapy on mortality in early breast cancer. An overview of 61 randomized trials among 28,896 women

1988 • 631 citations

Best-Evidence Synthesis: An Alternative to Meta-Analytic and Traditional Reviews

1986 • 627 citations

Statistical Methods in Cancer Research. Vol. 1: The Analysis of Case-Control Studies

1981 • 625 citations

Some Statistical Methods for Combining Experimental Results

1990 • 579 citations

Postoperative infection and natural killer cell function following blood transfusion in patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery

1992 • 565 citations

Blood Transfusions and Prognosis in Colorectal Cancer

1993 • 564 citations

Underreporting Research Is Scientific Misconduct

1990 • 542 citations

How study design affects outcomes in comparisons of therapy. I: Medical

1989 • 528 citations

DOES BREAST MILK PROTECT AGAINST SEPTICÆMIA IN THE NEWBORN ?

1971 • 515 citations

CONTROLLED TRIAL OF TREATMENT OF RECURRENT SPONTANEOUS ABORTION BY IMMUNISATION WITH PATERNAL CELLS

1985 • 499 citations

Meta-Analysis for Explanation: A Casebook.

1993 • 495 citations

An exercise in mega-silliness.

1978 • 450 citations

Evidence Favoring the Use of Anticoagulants in the Hospital Phase of Acute Myocardial Infarction

1977 • 439 citations

A comparison of statistical methods for combining event rates from clinical trials

1989 • 426 citations

Publication Bias and Dissemination of Clinical Research

1989 • 418 citations

Controversy in Counting and Attributing Events in Clinical Trials

1979 • 414 citations

Source of funding and outcome of clinical trials

1986 • 410 citations

Beneficial effect of autologous blood transfusion on infectious complications after colorectal cancer surgery

1993 • 406 citations

Why do we need systematic overviews of randomized trials? (Transcript of an oral presentation, modified by the editors)

1987 • 404 citations

Meta-analysis in epidemiology, with special reference to studies of the association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer: A critique

1991 • 402 citations

Randomised controlled trial comparing transfusion of leucocyte-depleted or buffy-coat-depleted blood in surgery for colorectal cancer

1994 • 392 citations

A Simple Approximation for Calculating Sample Sizes for Comparing Independent Proportions

1980 • 362 citations

Efficacy of erythropoietin in the myelodysplastic syndromes: a meta‐analysis of 205 patients from 17 studies

1995 • 359 citations

Blood transfusion-modulated tumor recurrence: first results of a randomized study of autologous versus allogeneic blood transfusion in colorectal cancer surgery.

1994 • 347 citations

Of Mice but Not Men

1991 • 346 citations

Fundamentals of Clinical Trials

1986 • 337 citations

Prevention of refractoriness and HLA-alloimmunization using filtered blood products

1988 • 318 citations

Effects of transfusion on immune function. Cancer recurrence and infection.

1994 • 304 citations

Perioperative Parenteral Nutrition: A Meta-Analysis

1987 • 275 citations

Case-Control Studies. Design, Conduct, Analysis.

1983 • 266 citations

Use of leukocyte-depleted platelet concentrates for the prevention of refractoriness and primary HLA alloimmunization: a prospective, randomized trial

1991 • 250 citations

Total parenteral nutrition and cancer clinical trials

1986 • 247 citations

Meta‐analysis of clinical trials as a scientific discipline. I: Control of bias and comparison with large co‐operative trials

1987 • 245 citations

A proposal for more informative abstracts of clinical articles. Ad Hoc Working Group for Critical Appraisal of the Medical Literature.

1987 • 242 citations

Evidence for the Superiority of Immunosuppressive Drugs and Prednisone over Prednisone Alone in Lupus Nephritis

1984 • 239 citations

Meta-Analysis in the Breech

1990 • 234 citations

Predictive ability of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials

1995 • 232 citations

Worldwide Collaborative Observational Study and Meta‐Analysis on Allogenic Leukocyte Immunotherapy for Recurrent Spontaneous Abortion¹

1994 • 225 citations

Bias in meta-analytic research

1992 • 224 citations

Confronting publication bias: A cohort design for meta‐analysis

1987 • 220 citations

Meta-analyses to evaluate analgesic interventions: A systematic qualitative review of their methodology

1996 • 214 citations

Transfusion‐associated cancer recurrence and postoperative infection: meta‐analysis of randomized, controlled clinical trials

1996 • 213 citations

Prevention of HLA immunization with leukocyte-poor packed red cells and platelet concentrates obtained by filtration

1988 • 209 citations

A Cohort Study of Summary Reports of Controlled Trials

1990 • 208 citations

Effect of Intravenous Streptokinase on Acute Myocardial Infarction

1982 • 206 citations

A quality assessment of randomized control trials of primary treatment of breast cancer.

1986 • 199 citations

Prevention of HLA immunization with leukocyte-poor packed red cells and platelet concentrates obtained by filtration

1988 • 197 citations

Perioperative blood transfusion and outcome after resection for colorectal carcinoma

1993 • 186 citations

Recombinant Human Erythropoietin in the Treatment of Anemia Associated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection and Zidovudine Therapy

1992 • 185 citations

Medical Uses of Statistics.

1987 • 184 citations

Granulocyte Transfusions in Neonates with Bacterial Infection, Neutropenia, and Depletion of Mature Marrow Neutrophils

1982 • 182 citations

Avoidance of large biases and large random errors in the assessment of moderate treatment effects: The need for systematic overviews

1987 • 180 citations

BIAS AGAINST THE NULL HYPOTHESIS: THE REPRODUCTIVE HAZARDS OF COCAINE

1989 • 176 citations

Principles of Transfusion Medicine

1996 • 172 citations

Perusing the literature: Comparison of MEDLINE searching with a perinatal trials database

1985 • 172 citations

Bias in the one‐step method for pooling study results

1990 • 165 citations

On The Epidemiology of Oral Contraceptives and Disease

1987 • 161 citations

The retrieval of randomized clinical trials in liver disease from the medical literature

1985 • 158 citations

A randomized trial of leukocyte-depleted platelet transfusion to modify alloimmunization in patients with leukemia

1983 • 153 citations

Problems induced by meta‐analyses

1991 • 151 citations

Controlled Studies in Clinical Cancer Research

1972 • 149 citations

The randomized clinical trial: bias in analysis.

1981 • 148 citations

Meta-analysis in medicine Where we are and where we want to go

1989 • 145 citations

Perioperative blood transfusion and cancer recurrence: meta‐analysis for explanation

1995 • 142 citations

Interferon-α for chronic hepatitis C: An analysis of pretreatment clinical predictors of response

1994 • 142 citations

How study design affects outcomes in comparisons of therapy. II: Surgical

1989 • 142 citations

Aminophylline treatment in severe, acute asthma. A meta-analysis

1988 • 142 citations

Clinical Trials — Are They Ethical?

1991 • 140 citations

RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE STUDIES ON THE EFFECT OF BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS IN RENAL TRANSPLANTATION IN THE NETHERLANDS

1979 • 136 citations

Retrospective and Prospective Identification of Unpublished Controlled Trials: Lessons From a Survey of Obstetricians and Pediatricians

1989 • 135 citations

A Comparison of Meta-analytic Results Using Literature vs Individual Patient Data

1995 • 134 citations

Discordance between Meta-analyses and Large-Scale Randomized, Controlled Trials: Examples from the Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction

1995 • 129 citations

Bedside filtration of blood products in the prevention of HLA alloimmunization--a prospective randomized study. Alloimmunisation Study Group

1994 • 128 citations

Aminophylline Treatment in Severe, Acute Asthma

1988 • 127 citations

Disturbed by Meta-Analysis?

1988 • 124 citations

Meta‐analysis of clinical trials as a scientific discipline. II: Replicate variability and comparison of studies that agree and disagree

1987 • 124 citations

Prevention of alloimmunization in patients with acute leukemia by use of white cell‐reduced blood components—a randomized trial

1991 • 122 citations

Meta-analytic stimulus for changes in clinical trials

1993 • 119 citations

Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. A concern for standards;.

1995 • 118 citations

Treatment of Recurrent Aborters by Immunization With Paternal Cells—Controlled Trial

1991 • 113 citations

Immunotherapy for Recurrent Spontaneous Abortions in a Chinese Population

1991 • 112 citations

Inter‐study differences: How should they influence the interpretation and analysis of results?

1987 • 111 citations

Best-Evidence Synthesis: An Alternative to Meta-Analytic and Traditional Reviews

1986 • 111 citations

Blood transfusion and postoperative septic complications

1994 • 110 citations

Polymorphonuclear leukocyte transfusion for the treatment of sepsis in the newborn infant

1981 • 109 citations

Guidelines for reading case-control studies

1987 • 107 citations

Meta-analysis of clinical studies of the efficacy of granulocyte transfusions in the treatment of bacterial sepsis

1996 • 99 citations

Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine

1993 • 98 citations

Meta-analysis in medical research: Strong encouragement for higher quality in individual research efforts

1989 • 97 citations

Resolving conflicting clinical trials: Guidelines for meta-analysis

1988 • 93 citations

Estimation issues in clinical trials and overviews

1990 • 90 citations

Sensitivity and Specificity of Clinical Trials

1983 • 89 citations

Guidelines for publishing papers on cancer clinical trials: responsibilities of editors and authors.

1983 • 85 citations

Clinical Practice of Transfusion Medicine

1997 • 83 citations

Treatment of Recurrent Spontaneous Abortion by Immunization With Paternal Lymphocytes: Results of a Controlled Trial

1993 • 82 citations

Computer Searching of the Medical Literature

1985 • 74 citations

Randomized trial of granulocyte transfusions versus intravenous immune globulin therapy for neonatal neutropenia and sepsis

1992 • 73 citations

Rigor in Data Synthesis: A Case Study of Reliability in Meta-analysis

1982 • 68 citations

Role of circulating complement and polymorphonuclear leukocyte transfusion in treatment and outcome in critically ill neonates with sepsis

1987 • 67 citations

Buffy Coat Transfusions in Neutropenic Neonates With Presumed Sepsis: A Prospective, Randomized Trial

1987 • 67 citations

Effect of Transfusion on Immune Function in a Traumatized Animal Model

1987 • 66 citations

The leukodepletion of cellular blood products in the prevention of HLA- alloimmunization and refractoriness to allogeneic platelet transfusions [editorial]

1995 • 64 citations

Strategy and alternate randomized designs in cancer clinical trials.

1982 • 63 citations

Two cheers for meta-analysis: problems and opportunities in aggregating results of clinical trials.

1988 • 57 citations

Obtaining medically meaningful answers from an overview of randomized clinical trials

1987 • 55 citations

The Efficacy of Leukodepletion to Improve Platelet Transfusion Response: A Critical Appraisal of Clinical Studies

1994 • 55 citations

A randomized trial of leukocyte-depleted platelet transfusion to modify alloimmunization in patients with leukemia

1983 • 51 citations

Effect of Blood Transfusion on Recurrence of Head and Neck Carcinoma

1992 • 51 citations

You cannot exclude the explanation you have not considered

1993 • 49 citations

Buffy Coat Transfusions in Neonates With Sepsis and Neutrophil Storage Pool Depletion

1987 • 49 citations

Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer

1986 • 49 citations

Blood donation leads to a decrease in natural killer cell activity: a study in normal blood donors and cancer patients

1993 • 47 citations

Problems in the medical interpretation of overviews

1987 • 47 citations

Multicentre clinical trials: Bradford Hill's contributions and some subsequent developments

1982 • 45 citations

Best-Evidence Synthesis: Why Less Is More

1987 • 43 citations

TREATMENT OF SEPTICAEMIA IN THE NEWBORN INFANT: CHOICE OF INITIAL ANTIMICROBIAL DRUGS AND THE ROLE OF EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION1

1977 • 42 citations

Randomized clinical trials and research strategy.

1982 • 41 citations

Meta‐analysis of clinical studies of the efficacy of plasma exchange in the treatment of chronic progressive multiple sclerosis

1995 • 40 citations

Early methodological developments for clinical trials at the national heart, lung and blood institute

1990 • 40 citations

Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. A concern for standards;

1995 • 39 citations

Effect of blood transfusions on immune function: IV. Effect on tumor growth

1988 • 33 citations

Implications of overviews of randomized trials

1987 • 31 citations

Meta-analysis: the quantitative approach to research review.

1988 • 31 citations

Comparison of multicenter study designs for investigation of carotid endarterectomy efficacy.

1992 • 30 citations

Meta-analysis: a review of pros and cons.

1990 • 28 citations

Immunization as therapy for recurrent spontaneous abortion: A review and meta‐analysis

1994 • 27 citations

Prevention of HLA Alloimmunization by Using Leukocyte-Depleted Components

2015 • 27 citations

Exchange transfusion in neutropenic septicemic neonates: effect on granulocyte functions

1993 • 26 citations

Using MEDLINE to peruse the literature

1985 • 23 citations

Perusing the literature methods of accessing MEDLINE and related databases

1985 • 20 citations

Historical controls, data banks, and randomized trials in clinical research: a review.

1982 • 20 citations

Bone marrow transplantation versus chemotherapy in acute non-lymphocytic leukemia: A meta-analytic review

1989 • 19 citations

Adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. A pooled estimate based on published randomized control trials

1986 • 15 citations

The peer review of manuscripts—In need for improvement

1986 • 13 citations

The use of meta-analysis in technology assessment: A meta-analysis of the enzyme immunosorbent assay human immunodeficiency virus antibody test*1

1991 • 11 citations

Etude technique immunologique et clinique des performances de filtration du sang à l'aide de l'appareil Erypur

1981 • 11 citations

Commentary

1987 • 9 citations