Re-analysis of 50 years data of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (RAAA) repair using cumulative meta-analysis (CMA) and meta-sub-group analysis (MSA)

Abstract

Meta-analysis is a quantitative technique that is used to integrate the outcome measures of multiple independent studies addressing the same research question. This is the widely used method to handle medical data in most of the countries which are developing medicines. Also a cumulative meta-analysis (CMA) is a technique of meta-analysis that is performed first with one study, then with two studies, and so on, until all relevant studies have been included in the analysis. This is simply a mechanism for displaying a series of separate analyses in one table or plot. Also we could use this technique to display the possible impact of publication bias and identify effectiveness of a treatment at the earliest possible date in time.