Trials Selected For Meta Analysis
Placebo effects in trials evaluating 12 selected minimally invasive interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... of trials reported better results on primary than on sec- ondary end points might lend support to such a hypoth- esis, although all trials, according to the authors, had sought and gained approval of the ...
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Acupuncture for migraine: a protocol for a meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomised controlled trials
... at selected acupoints (defined as ‘meridian acupoints’, which belong to 14 meridians in the body according to traditional acupuncture theory), pain points (defined as ‘a-shi points’ in the location of pain ...
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Efficacy of aerobic exercise and a prudent diet for improving selected lipids and lipoproteins in adults: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
... controlled trials that have employed diets aimed at improving lipids and lipopro- teins but may or may not meet the previously stated definition, have led to conflicting findings ...[4-19]. Meta- ...
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Safety and efficacy of methotrexate in psoriasis : a meta analysis of published trials
... Most recently, both FDA and EMA granted a licence for the biologic secukinumab for psori- asis. Significantly, the licence was granted as first-line systemic treatment (www.fda.gov/ ...
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Adjustment for reporting bias in network meta-analysis of antidepressant trials
... The models we described have limitations. First, they would result in poor estimation of bias and effect sizes when the conventional MAs within the network include small numbers of trials [21]. Second, for the ...
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Performing meta-analysis with incomplete statistical information in clinical trials
... traditional meta-analysis when some SEM values are ...the meta-analysis paper [17], it is hard to judge our approaches in some ...of trials with full statistical ...trial ...
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Association of Efficacy of Resistance Exercise Training With Depressive Symptoms: Meta-analysis and Meta-regression Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials
... analyses. Meta-regression was conducted to quantify the potential moderating influence of participant and trial ...clinical trials used validated measures of depressive symptoms assessed at baseline and ...
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Meta analysis of pain and function placebo responses in pharmacological osteoarthritis trials
... Consistent with Zou et al. [45], Doherty and Dieppe [47] reported a stronger PR for invasive than non-invasive procedures. Secondly, the current study selected the PRO with the lowest placebo response when more ...
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Meta-analysis of pharmacogenetic interactions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis clinical trials
... we selected the most important predictors by stepwise backward selection using Akaike Information ...The selected pre- dictors were subsequently added to the ...subgroup analysis, we did not correct ...
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HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT OF HEADACHES & MIGRAINE: A META-ANALYSIS OF THE RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS
... completed studies are published, and the selection process is not random (hence the 'bias'). Rather, studies that report relatively large treatment effects are more likely to be submitted and/or accepted for publication ...
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Meta analysis of binary data with excessive zeros in two-arm trials
... As a future direction of research, we would like to extend the approach discussed in this article for ordinal category data. For example, in some applications, the clinical trial end point could be a response variable in ...
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Network meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials: Reporting the proper summaries
... have selected treatment arms on purpose based on the results of previous trials, which may lead to ‘nonignorable missingness’ and potentially bias our event rate ...of trials with adequate samples ...
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Management of frailty: a protocol of a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
... A data extraction form will be developed for this review and pilot tested independently on two randomly selected studies by two reviewers to ensure consistency in extrac- tion. The extraction form will be refined ...
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Antipsychotic trials in schizophrenia from India: A systematic review and Meta-analysis
... Statistical analysis: Effect sizes were calculated for each antipsychotic ...was selected because it gives a robust measure for both categorical and continuous ...present meta-analysis, random ...
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Mechanical Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials
... measure selected for this analysis was mRS 0 to 2, which has been used in all stroke ...this analysis, which can be explained by the variation in the study ...
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A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Review
... our meta-analysis has sev- eral ...this meta- analysis came from a single study, 18 we could not assess other anterolateral ligament procedures, there were no data on long-term results, and ...
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Heterogeneity issues in the meta-analysis of cluster randomization trials.
... randomization trials. Applying existing meta-analysis methods to such trials is problematic because responses of subjects within clusters are likely ...a meta-analysis of such ...
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A meta analysis of randomised trials of behavioural treatment of depression.
... Our meta-analysis complements and concurs with other publications that include behavioural in- terventions as part of wider CBT reviews (Dobson, 1989 ; Gloaguen et ...included trials varied ...
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Surrogate endpoints in advanced sarcoma trials: a meta-analysis
... Conclusions: Our results do not support strong surrogate properties of PFS, TTP and TTF for OS in advanced STS. INTRODUCTION The choice of the primary endpoint is a key step when designing a randomized controlled trial ...
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Carvedilol as nephroprotective agent: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
... Role of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in chronic renal failure highlights the importance and benefits achieved by using ACE-Is/ARBs. 15 One of the outstanding features seen only with ACE-Is/ARBs as ...
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