🔎 Can you believe that meta-analysis?
Meta-analyses sit near the summit of evidence-based medicine—but pooling more studies does not automatically produce more truth. 📊
Lee and colleagues offer a powerful clinical lesson: credibility requires alignment of evidence, methods, and inference. Ask first: Should these studies have been pooled at all? 🧠
Look for prospective planning, robust source data, adequate events, explainable heterogeneity, transparency, and honest uncertainty.
🎯 The goal? Fewer, better, more believable meta-analyses.
