Distribution and Epidemiological Characteristics of Published Individual Patient Data Meta-Analyses

Yafang Huang; Chen Mao; Jinqiu Yuan; Zuyao Yang; Mengyang Di; Wilson Wai-san Tam; Jinling Tang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100151

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Distribution and Epidemiological Characteristics of Published Individual Patient Data Meta-Analyses

Yafang Huang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yafang Huang, Chen Mao

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Chen Mao ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yafang Huang, Chen Mao

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, The Shenzhen Municipal Key Laboratory for Health Risk Analysis, Shenzhen Research Institute of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
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Jinqiu Yuan,

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Zuyao Yang,

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, The Shenzhen Municipal Key Laboratory for Health Risk Analysis, Shenzhen Research Institute of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
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Mengyang Di,

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Wilson Wai-san Tam ,

* E-mail: wilsontam@cuhk.edu.hk (WST); jltang@cuhk.edu.hk (JLT)

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Jinling Tang

* E-mail: wilsontam@cuhk.edu.hk (WST); jltang@cuhk.edu.hk (JLT)

Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, The Shenzhen Municipal Key Laboratory for Health Risk Analysis, Shenzhen Research Institute of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
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Distribution and Epidemiological Characteristics of Published Individual Patient Data Meta-Analyses

Yafang Huang,
Chen Mao,
Jinqiu Yuan,
Zuyao Yang,
Mengyang Di,
Wilson Wai-san Tam,
Jinling Tang

Published: June 19, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0100151

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