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Inclusion of zero total event trials in meta-analyses maintains analytic consistency and incorporates all available data
BACKGROUND: Meta-analysis handles randomized trials with no outcome events in both treatment and control arms inconsistently, including them when risk difference (RD) is the effect measure but excluding them when relative risk (RR) or odds ratio (OR) are used. This study examined the influence of su...
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BioMed Central
2007
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1783664/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17244367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-7-5 |