1 Introduction2 Protocol writing for meta-analysis study 3 Formulation of research problem 4 Location and selection of studies 5 Quality assessment of selected studies 6 Effect sizes of primary studies 7 Preparation of meta-analysis master sheet 8 Meta-analysis plots 9 Meta-analysis of two studies 10 Methods for pooling estimates : fixed effects mode 11 Method for pooling estimates : random effects model 12 Individual patient data meta-analysis 13 Meta-analysis of observational studies 14 Additional meta-analysis techniques 15 Reporting meta-analysis results 16 Implications of results of meta-analysis 17 Meta-analysis software 18 Running meta-analysis using STATAAppendixIndex