Front page
Handbook information
Part 1: Cochrane reviews
Part 2: General methods for Cochrane reviews
    5 Defining the review question and developing criteria for including studies
    6 Searching for studies
    7 Selecting studies and collecting data
    8 Assessing risk of bias in included studies
    9 Analysing data and undertaking meta-analyses
    10 Addressing reporting biases
    11 Presenting results and 'Summary of findings' tables
    12 Interpreting results and drawing conclusions
       12.1 Introduction
       12.2 Assessing the quality of a body of evidence
       12.3 Issues in applicability
       12.4 Interpreting results of statistical analyses
       12.5 Interpreting results from dichotomous outcomes (including numbers needed to treat)
       12.6 Interpreting results from continuous outcomes (including standardized mean differences)
          12.6.1 Meta-analyses with continuous outcomes
          12.6.2 Re-expressing SMDs using rules of thumb for effect sizes
          12.6.3 Re-expressing SMDs by transformation to odds ratio
          Table 12.6.a: NNTs equivalant to specific SMDs for various given 'proportions improved' in the control group
          12.6.4 Re-expressing SMDs using a familiar instrument
       12.7 Drawing conclusions
       12.8 Chapter information
       Box 12.8.a: The Cochrane Applicability and Recommendations Methods
       12.9 References
Part 3: Special topics
Additional material