• 1. Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, People's Hospital of Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China;
  • 2. Department of Urology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 43000, China;
  • 3. Department of Science and Education, the First People's Hospital of Changde, Changde 415003, China;
  • 4. Center for Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Research, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China;
  • 5. Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shihezi University Shihezi 832003, China;
  • 6. West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China;
ZHANGYong-gang, Email: yonggang-zhang@sohu.com
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In evidence-based practice and decision, dose-response meta-analysis has been concerned by many scholars. It can provide unique dose-response relationship between exposure and disease, with a high grade of evidence among observational-study based meta-analysis. Thus, it is important to clearly understand this type of meta-analysis on software implementations. Currently, there are different software for dose-response meta-analysis with various characteristics. In this paper, we will focus on how to conduct dose-response meta-analysis by Stata, R and SAS software, which including a brief introduction, the process of calculation, the graph drawing, the generalization, and some examples of the processes.

Citation: GUOPeng, XUChang, ZHOUQuan, ZHANGChao, YANJin-zhu, ZHANGYong-gang. How to Conduct Dose-response Meta-analysis: the Application of Software. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2016, 16(3): 363-368. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20160056 Copy

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