Understand the importance of heterogeneity within forest plots and how it affects interpretation.Understand why forest plots look different depending on the statistics being analysed.Understand how to read a forest plot and what the results displayed mean both at the level of individual studies and the averaged result.Understand what forest plots are used for.Never fear- the following tutorial should give you a step by step way to interpret any forest plot! Tutorial informationīy the end of this tutorial you should be able to: As students, we sometimes think graphs like the one in figure 1 are a bit hard to interpret. Image adapted from Table 4 Roberts et al.
