{
  "abstract": "Binary outcomes, such as mortality and myocardial infarction, are often viewed as most important to patients. However, outcomes that are expressed on a non-dichotomous scale such as quality of life, severity of depression or length of hospitalization, can also be critical to patients. For the purposes of this paper, all of the above examples will be referred to as continuous outcomes. While many binary outcomes are dichotomised from a continuous scale and in some cases can accommodate non-linear associations, such dichotomisation can also lead to loss of information. 1",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Evidence Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA",
        "Kinesiology and Sport Management, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Madelin R Siedler"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Evidence Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA",
        "Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada",
        "Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Reem A Mustafa"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Tucson, Arizona, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Lifeng Lin"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Evidence Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA",
        "Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada",
        "School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Rebecca L Morgan"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Evidence Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA",
        "School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Yngve Falck-Ytter"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Evidence Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA",
        "Urology Section, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA",
        "Department of Urology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Philipp Dahm"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Evidence Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA",
        "Division of Gastroenterology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Shahnaz Sultan"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Evidence Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA",
        "Evidence-based Practice Center, Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Mohammad Hassan Murad"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Meta-analysis of continuous outcomes: a user’s guide for analysis and interpretation",
  "uid": "a168b239-ae25-5f1d-891e-82d6478a93f8"
}