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Jon Deeks

Professor of Biostatistics
Verified email at bham.ac.uk
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Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

JPT Higgins, SG Thompson, JJ Deeks, DG Altman - Bmj, 2003 - bmj.com
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses can provide convincing and reliable evidence relevant
to many aspects of medicine and health care. 1 Their value is especially clear when the …

Rapid, point‐of‐care antigen tests for diagnosis of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection

…, A Van den Bruel, JJ Deeks… - Cochrane database …, 2022 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Accurate rapid diagnostic tests for SARS‐CoV‐2 infection would be a useful tool
to help manage the COVID‐19 pandemic. Testing strategies that use rapid antigen tests to …

Evaluating non-randomised intervention studies.

JJ Deeks, J Dinnes, R D'Amico… - Health technology …, 2003 - researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk
OBJECTIVES: To consider methods and related evidence for evaluating bias in non-randomised
intervention studies. DATA SOURCES: Systematic reviews and methodological papers …

ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions

…, R Churchill, JJ Deeks, A Hróbjartsson, J Kirkham… - bmj, 2016 - bmj.com
Non-randomised studies of the effects of interventions are critical to many areas of healthcare
evaluation, but their results may be biased. It is therefore important to understand and …

QUADAS-2: a revised tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies

…, ME Westwood, S Mallett, JJ Deeks… - Annals of internal …, 2011 - acpjournals.org
In 2003, the QUADAS tool for systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies was
developed. Experience, anecdotal reports, and feedback suggested areas for improvement; …

Analysing data and undertaking meta‐analyses

JJ Deeks, JPT Higgins, DG Altman… - … systematic reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter describes the principles and methods used to carry out a meta‐analysis for a
comparison of two interventions for the main types of data encountered. A very common and …

Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials

…, CH Schmid, J Tetzlaff, JJ Deeks, J Peters… - Bmj, 2011 - bmj.com
Funnel plots, and tests for funnel plot asymmetry, have been widely used to examine bias in
the results of meta-analyses. Funnel plot asymmetry should not be equated with publication …

[HTML][HTML] MRI-targeted or standard biopsy for prostate-cancer diagnosis

…, NR Williams, C Brew-Graves, J Deeks… - … England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with or without targeted
biopsy, is an alternative to standard transrectal ultrasonography–guided biopsy for prostate-…

The performance of tests of publication bias and other sample size effects in systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy was assessed

JJ Deeks, P Macaskill, L Irwig - Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2005 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Publication bias and other sample size effects are issues
for meta-analyses of test accuracy, as for randomized trials. We investigate limitations of …

Preferred reporting items for a systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies: the PRISMA-DTA statement

…, PM Bossuyt, T Clifford, JF Cohen, JJ Deeks… - Jama, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy synthesize data from primary
diagnostic studies that have evaluated the accuracy of 1 or more index tests against a reference …