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Rescaling pain intensity measures for meta-analyses of analgesic medicines for low back pain appears justified: an empirical examination from randomised trials

OBJECTIVE: Meta-analyses of analgesic medicines for low back pain often rescale measures of pain intensity to use mean difference (MD) instead of standardised mean difference for pooled estimates. Although this improves clinical interpretability, it is not clear whether this method is justified. Our...

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Autores principales: Wewege, Michael A., Jones, Matthew D., Williams, Sam A., Kamper, Steven J., McAuley, James H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9636623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36333665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-022-01763-x