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Small studies may overestimate the effect sizes in critical care meta-analyses: a meta-epidemiological study
INTRODUCTION: Small-study effects refer to the fact that trials with limited sample sizes are more likely to report larger beneficial effects than large trials. However, this has never been investigated in critical care medicine. Thus, the present study aimed to examine the presence and extent of sm...
Autores principales: | Zhang, Zhongheng, Xu, Xiao, Ni, Hongying |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4056100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23302257 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc11919 |
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