Harmonization of maternal balanced energy-protein supplementation studies for individual participant data (IPD) meta-analyses - finding and creating similarities in variables and data collection

• Main Authors: Alison D. Gernand (Author), Kelly Gallagher (Author), Nita Bhandari (Author), Patrick Kolsteren (Author), Anne CC Lee (Author), Yasir Shafiq (Author), Sunita Taneja (Author), James M. Tielsch (Author), Firehiwot Workneh Abate (Author), Estifanos Baye (Author), Yemane Berhane (Author), Ranadip Chowdhury (Author), Trenton Dailey-Chwalibóg (Author), Brenda de Kok (Author), Neeta Dhabhai (Author), Fyezah Jehan (Author), Yunhee Kang (Author), Joanne Katz (Author), Subarna Khatry (Author), Carl Lachat (Author), Sarmila Mazumder (Author), Ameer Muhammad (Author), Muhammad Imran Nisar (Author), Sitanshi Sharma (Author), Leigh A. Martin (Author), Ravi Prakash Upadhyay (Author), Parul Christian (Author), Maternal BEP Studies Harmonization Initiative (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Public health and clinical recommendations are established from systematic reviews and retrospective meta-analyses combining effect sizes, traditionally, from aggregate data and more recently, using individual participant data (IPD) of published studies. However, trials often hav...