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Issues relating to confounding and meta‐analysis when including non‐randomized studies in systematic reviews on the effects of interventions
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Background: Confounding caused by selection bias is often a key difference between non‐randomized studies (NRS) and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions. Key methodological issues: In this third paper of the series, we consider issues relating to the inclusion of NRS in systematic reviews on the effects of interventions. We discuss whether potential biases from confounding in NRS can be accounted for, the limitations of current methods for attempting to do so, the different contexts of NRS and RCTs, the problems these issues create for reviewers, and a research agenda for the future. Guidance: Reviewers who are considering whether or not to include NRS in meta‐analyses must weigh a number of factors. Including NRS may allow a review to address outcomes or pragmatic implementations of an intervention not studied in RCTs, but it will also increase the workload for the review team, as well as their required technical repertoire. Furthermore, the results of a synthesis involving NRS will likely be more difficult to interpret, and less certain, relative to the results of a synthesis involving only randomized studies. When both randomized and non‐randomized evidence are available, we favor a strategy of including NRS and RCTs in the same systematic review but synthesizing their results separately. Conclusion: Including NRS will often make the limitations of the evidence derived from RCTs more apparent, thereby guiding inferences about generalizability, and may help with the design of the next generation of RCTs. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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“Workload, which is generally higher when observational studies are included, was also mentioned as a factor in the decision of which study designs to include [75].”
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“Authors agreed that combining different study designs in a meta-analysis can lead to misleading results if done without careful consideration [35, 38, 56, 70, 75, 76].”
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“Recommendations were made mainly on 2 topics: whether different study designs should be included in a systematic review; [29, 34, 37–39, 49, 56, 65, 73, 75] and whether different study designs should be analysed together in a single meta-analysis [8, 34, 35, 37, 38, 42, 49, 51, 56, 61, 70, 75–78].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Valentine, J. C., & Thompson, S. G.
- Affiliations
- University of Louisville (US)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Valentine, Jeffrey C.
- Venue
- Research Synthesis Methods
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012-11-06
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 26-35
- ISSN
- 1759-2879 (ISSN-L)
- 1759-2887
- OpenAlex
- W1918813775
- Cited by
- 130
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 2.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Research Synthesis Methods (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NF-SI-0512-10165)
- British Heart Foundation (RG/08/014/24067)
- Medical Research Council (MR/L003120/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Delphi Technique in Research
- Keywords
- confounding, selection bias, non-randomized studies, meta-analysis, systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials, generalizability, evidence synthesis
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