Example sentences for: meta-analyses

How can you use “meta-analyses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This may reflect a common belief that meta-analyses should be based on multiple clinical trials, which are very common in cancer studies and less common in other fields.

  • Most meta-analyses begin with a search using the NLM Medline system.

  • Meta-analyses attempt to meet one or both of two goals: summarizing the available data or explaining the variability between different studies.

  • al in 1996, light therapy decreased symptoms by as much as 35% compared with placebo, when combined with antidepressant medication and late-night sleep deprivation [ 18 ] . These effects surpass that demonstrated by antidepressant drugs, alone, over placebo, which recent meta-analyses have described as improving symptoms by 8% to 19% [ 19 20 21 ] . Bright white light therapy has been shown to significantly reduce depression and premenstrual symptoms in women with late luteal phase dysphoric disorder during their menstrual cycles [ 22 23 24 ] . The lower cost, shorter duration of treatment, and lack of overt transmission through breast-milk, relative to extensive interpersonal psychotherapy or antidepressant pharmacotherapy, makes light therapy a potentially viable and appealing alternative treatment for postpartum mood disorders.

  • Table 2collects NNTs for a number of common oral analgesics and intramuscular morphine from recent meta-analyses [ 32 13 ] and unpublished updates of other published Cochrane reviews [ 33 34 ] . Rofecoxib 50 mg is comparable with other doses of oral NSAIDs and intramuscular morphine.


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