@inbook{fd940fd6d9eb4097a65c18e82703ce54,
title = "Practical Considerations and Challenges When Conducting an Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-Analysis",
abstract = "This chapter provides a broad overview of the use of individual participant (sometimes referred to as patient) data (IPD ) within meta-analyses, the associated advantages of using IPD in meta-analysis compared to aggregate data, and when IPD should be used in meta-analysis.This chapter also outlines the steps of conducting an IPD meta-analysis, with practical guidance relating to requesting and obtaining IPD for meta-analysis. Challenges that can be associated with conducting an IPD meta-analysis are also discussed, including consideration of availability bias, when a subset of the relevant IPD is not available for meta-analysis.",
keywords = "Bias, Data Analysis, Humans, Meta-Analysis as Topic",
author = "Nevitt, {Sarah J} and {Tudur Smith}, Catrin",
note = "{\textcopyright} 2022. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.",
year = "2021",
month = sep,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-0716-1566-9_16",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-0716-1565-2",
series = "Methods in Molecular Biology",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "263--278",
booktitle = "Meta-Research",
address = "Germany",
}