Common-effect meta-analysis weight audit
Verified methods: 2026-11-02

Instructions: Save a copy and complete each blank. Use fictional or aggregate values only; never enter patient identifiers. Record unresolved issues instead of inventing answers. This is a planning aid, not expert approval.

DEFINE ELIGIBLE SYNTHESIS
Question, outcome, time point and effect units: ______
Why a common-effect model is defensible: ______
Independent estimates? Overlapping cohorts checked: ______

EXTRACT AND CHECK
Study | difference estimate | standard error | source
______ | ______ | ______ | ______
______ | ______ | ______ | ______
Confirm same direction and compatible units; SE is positive.
Do not enter untransformed ratios into the linked tool.

AUDIT CALCULATIONS
Weights = 1/SE²; sum of weights: ______
Weighted estimate: ______; SE = 1/sqrt(sum weights): ______
Normal 95% interval: ______
Q: ______; degrees of freedom k−1: ______
Q-based I² = max(0,(Q−df)/Q) × 100%; if Q=0 use 0: ______

INTERPRET WITH LIMITS
Risk of bias and clinical/methodological differences: ______
Influential study / sensitivity analysis plan: ______
Few-study uncertainty in heterogeneity: ______
Independent calculation checked by/date: ______

Project/version: ______  Completion date: ______