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  • Biostatistics
  • Genomic medicine

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  • The reproducibility crisis in science necessitates greater transparency in study design and analysis.
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are crucial for medical research consensus but face limitations due to static evidence summaries.
  • Conventional meta-analyses impose specific criteria, leading to discordant inferences and delayed consensus.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and demonstrate a shift towards interactive meta-analysis for more transparent and flexible evidence synthesis.
  • To enable stakeholders to apply their own quality assessment and analytical choices in meta-analyses.
  • To accelerate consensus-building in medical research by revealing the impact of varying analytical approaches.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a web-based platform for interactive meta-analysis.
  • Stakeholder-driven evidence synthesis using customizable quality criteria and analytical approaches.
  • Meta-analysis of the association between genetic variation in a tamoxifen-metabolising enzyme and breast cancer recurrence.

Main Results:

  • Demonstration of how interactive meta-analysis can reveal differences in summary estimates based on user-defined criteria.
  • The approach highlights areas of agreement and disagreement among different analytical choices.
  • The study provides a framework for exploring the robustness of meta-analysis findings.

Conclusions:

  • Interactive meta-analysis can expedite scientific consensus by showing when inferences are invariant to analytical choices.
  • Discrepancies identified through interactive meta-analysis pinpoint critical areas for future research investment.
  • This method offers a dynamic alternative to static evidence summaries, improving research transparency and reproducibility.