Model-Driven Meta-Analyses for Informing Health Care: A Diabetes Meta-Analysis as an Exemplar

We describe the unique challenges of conducting a model-driven meta-analysis, focusing primarily on issues related to locating a sample of published and unpublished primary studies, extracting and verifying descriptive and correlational data, and conducting analyses. A current meta-analysis of the research on predictors of key health outcomes in diabetes is used to illustrate our main points.

Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - February 25, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Brown, S. A., Becker, B. J., Garcia, A. A., Brown, A., Ramirez, G. Tags: Research Methods Source Type: research