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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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Autores principales: Friedrich, Jan O, Adhikari, Neill KJ, Beyene, Joseph
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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