I appreciate Kataoka et al. [
[1]
] addressing my suggestion that caution is needed when labeling a study as “meta-epidemiological”
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- Kataoka Y.
- Banno M.
- Tsujimoto Y.
- Furukawa T.A.
“Meta-epidemiological study” is a study in which the unit of analysis is a study,
not a patient; response to Puljak et al.
J Clin Epidemiol. 2022; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.12.002
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Livia Puljak has published research on this topic before. She has no conflict of interest to declare related to this topic.
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- “Meta-epidemiological study” is a study in which the unit of analysis is a study, not a patient; response to Puljak et al.Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
- PreviewWe welcome Prof. Puljak's comment and related endeavors to clarify and define the currently confusing nomenclatures around “meta-epidemiology” and related terms such as “meta-research” and “research-on-research” [1,2]. We agree that the concept of “meta-epidemiological” studies includes studies that evaluate the impact of trial characteristics on effect sizes [3]. However, we do not agree with limiting the concept of this term only to such studies for several reasons.
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