As the healthcare administrator for healthcare research-focused organization, you have been collaborating with a team of researchers from across the country working on a systematic review.

As the healthcare administrator for healthcare research-focused organization, you have been collaborating with a team of researchers from across the country working on a systematic review. The systematic review process is an intensive and time-consuming endeavor that includes:

Gathering evidence from the literature.

Synthesizing the evidence gathered.

Disseminating findings through manuscript publication in peer review journals.

As you work with your team to develop the manuscript to be published in a high-impact journal, your team agreed to present a summarized version of all the quantitative data gathered by conducting and interpreting a meta-analysis. As a result, the team requested that your team develop a Forest Plot that will be used to present your evidence in the manuscript being prepared for submission in a peer-review journal.

Using the data table and Forest Plot graph sent to you by one of your analysts below:

Studies Estimate (95%,    C.I.) Ev/Trt Ev/Ctrl

Gonzalez 1993 0.667 (0.275,     1.615) 6/27 9/27

Prins 1993 0.465 (0.126,     1.715) 3/59 7/64

Giamarellou 1991 0.091 (0.005,     1.575) 0/30 5/30

Maller 1993 1.355 (0.693,     2.647) 19/164 13/152

Sturm 1989 0.200 (0.010,     4.025) 0/36 2/36

Marik 1991 0.496 (0.327,     0.754) 26/155 49/145

Muijsken 1988 1.458 (0.568,     3.747) 8/32 6/35

Vigano 1992 2.840 (0.118,    68.570) 1/74 0/70

Hansen 1988 0.201 (0.049,     0.831) 2/28 11/31

De Vries 1990 1.900 (0.493,     7.328) 6/80 3/76

Mauracher 1989 0.078 (0.004,     1.360) 0/92 6/93

Nordstrom 1990 0.698 (0.172,     2.838) 3/29 4/27

Rozdzinski 1993 1.014 (0.551,     1.867) 16/71 16/72

Ter Braak 1990 1.304 (0.547,     3.110) 10/69 8/72

Tulkens 1988 1.000 (0.021,   47.969) 0/19 0/19

Van der Auwera 1991 0.200 (0.010,     3.998) 0/30 2/30

Klastersky 1997 3.667 (1.161,   11.579) 11/25 3/25

Vanhaeverbeek 1993 1.050 (0.022,   50.427) 0/19 0/20

Hollender 1989 0.322 (0.013,     7.742) 0/58 1/56

Overall (I^2=42% , P=0.029) 

0.827 (0.567,1.206) 111/1097 145/1080

Using Meta-analysis strategies, analyze the Forest Plot and discuss your findings. Be sure to cut and paste the table and Forest Plot graph into your paper as your point of reference for your analysis. Submit the result of your analysis and Forest chart in the Dropbox.