What key words were included in the final search syntax

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Meta-Analysis Forest Plot Assignment -

Using the Nanninga, et al 2018 article provided on CANVAS to answers about the elements in the table below to appraise the article. Include a brief comment to support your yes or no answer. You are not expected to recopy the article. Additionally, using data from Nanninga, et al shown below, create a forest plot. Each forest plot should have appropriate labels and formatting (see examples provided). Answer the questions below and submit them along with a PDF of the forest plot to the quiz on the CANVAS page.

Suggested Article: Nanninga S, Lhachimi SK, Bolte G. Impact of public smoking bans on children's exposure to tobacco smoke at home: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Public Health. 2018 Jun 21;18(1):749. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5679-z. PubMed PMID: 29925343.

DATA for the Forest Plot

Author(s) and Year	After Legislation		Before Legislation
Author(s) and Year	Exposed Children	All Children	Exposed Children	All Children
Hawkins, 2012	16571	62768	20688	67607
Sinha, 2008	3215	12086	24780	68077
Yao, 2016	664	8095	2627	10636
Kuntz, 2016	294	4455	1597	6680
Chan, 2014	53	183	191	219
Jarvis, 2012	468	1415	823	2095
Ho, 2010	318	4965	156	3243
Fernandez, 2018	60	118	46	118
Huang, 2012	1205	2089	1327	2216
Sims, 2012	493	2581	1189	3303
Kabir, 2010	1262	2805	1274	2670
Bolte, 2015	658	5143	896	6267
Jarvis, 2015	568	2043	1492	3638
Holiday, 2009	313	1580	328	1587
Akhtar, 2007	623	2272	668	2404

RE Model for all Studies.

ELEMENT -

PROBLEM:

1. Did the study clearly stated research question or problem?

LITERATURE SEARCH STRATEGY:

2. Were the inclusion and exclusion criteria for selecting primary studies clearly described?

3. What data bases were used by the reviewers?

4. What key words were included in the final search syntax?

SAMPLE:

5. What inclusion and Exclusion criteria were used?

6. If studies were excluded from the meta-analysis, did reviewers provide a rationale for the decision?

7. Was it reasonable to combine the selected studies?

8. Did at least two or more people do the appraisals for each study?

9. Was interrater agreement reported?

DATA ANALYSIS:

10. Were methods for pooling and integrating the data explained?

11. Was heterogeneity of effects discussed and dealt with appropriately?

12. Was the issue of publication bias discussed?

13. Were limitations of the meta-analysis discussed?

PART 2: Forrest Plot Creation Meta -Analysis Data Interpretation

For the part 2 of the Meta-Analysis Appraisal students will be asked to generate and interpret a forest plot using data from the Nanninga et al 2018 study. After generating the plot use the information obtained from the template and the plot to answer the questions below. See more details on how to generate the plot on the Meta-Analysis Template link in the module.

ELEMENT -

DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

1. How many studies are included in the meta-analysis?

2. Which study reported the highest relative risk?

3. Which study reported the lowest relative risk?

4. Which study had the largest sample size?

5. Which study had the smallest sample size?

ANALYSIS RESULTS:

6. Which study had the highest weight?

7. Which study had the lowest weight?

8. What was the value of the heterogeneity?

9. Based on the heterogeneity, what is the value of the effect summary that should be reported?

10. What is the confidence interval for the effect summary?

INTERPRETATION: Based upon your forest plot and your analysis, how do you interpret the impact of the public smoking bans on children's exposure to second hand smoke? (ie interpret the effect summary)

Would you consider a change in practice as a result of the evidence from the results of the meta-analysis?

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len2241945

2/24/2019 11:35:20 PM

Please confirm you received all the information (5 attachments), Please answer all questions with each answer leaving a comment with the rationale for answering yes or no. Second, you need to put in the data in the template that was provided. Its all in red, there are 3 separate pages in that excel template. 1st page is instructions to only fill in the red and ignores any dark areas. The second page is putting in the data to get values, the third page you add the values again to generate the forest plot graph.

2/24/2019 11:35:13 PM

Attachments 1) assignment with all the questions 2) nanninga article to answer part of the questions 3) to answer part 2 of the assignment you need to put in the data (from nanninga article) in the template that was provided and it will automatically generate the data and make a graph 4) I have attached/provided the values already done in excel, all you have to do is copy and paste it into the template to generate the values and graph 5) I have attached Neyeloff article that helps break down what is a forest plot is and what does the values mean. It has a lot of information to help in understand a forest plot if the writer does no what certain values mean.

2/24/2019 11:35:07 PM

FOREST PLOT ( Rubric)- worth 40 points - Titles (2pts), Study labels provided (5pts), Effect measures and confidence intervals provided (12pts), Reference line ( x=1) provided (5pts), Summary estimate provided (5pts) and Overall appearance (10pts). Sample forest plots are provided only for your convenience, but feel free to format your forest plot the would like, just ensure all essential information is included.

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