Abstract This article offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on drivers financial development (FD). Our results based 1,900 estimates suggest that institutional quality is positively correlated to both private sector credit and stock market capitalization (both as share Gross Domestic Product). openness has positive effect proxies for FD, while trade seems only important capitaliza...

Diabetes education has largely been accepted in diabetes care. The effect of diabetes education on glycemic control and the components of education responsible for such an effect are uncertain. We performed a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of diabetes patient education published between 1990 and December 2000 to quantitatively assess and characterize the effect of patient educati...

The lack of consistent presentation results in published studies on the association between a quantitative explanatory variable and dependent has been long-term issue evaluating reported findings. Studies are analyzed variety ways. main purpose this review is to illustrate procedures summarizing synthesizing research from multivariate models with outcome variable. summarizes application standar...

CONTEXT Nearly half of adult cancer survivors are younger than 65 years, but the association of cancer survivorship with employment status is unknown. OBJECTIVE To assess the association of cancer survivorship with unemployment compared with healthy controls. DATA SOURCES A systematic search of studies published between 1966 and June 2008 was conducted using MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycINF...