make sure the text uses in text citations are formated in APA 7 style - A meta-analysis is a statistical approach that aggregates the results from multiple independent studies, such as those evaluating the effectiveness of drug courts (Borenstein, Hedges, Higgins, & Rothstein, 2009; Shorten & Shorten, 2013). Conducting a meta-analysis involves several key steps. Initially, researchers identify all relevant studies that meet specific criteria, such as those focusing on the same interventionin this case, drug courts (Moher, Liberati, Tetzlaff, & Altman, 2009; Lipsey, 1997). They then extract and statistically combine the results of these studies to produce a single estimate of the intervention's overall effect, referred to as the absolute effect (Borenstein et al., 2009)