Systematic reviews in health care: Investigating and dealing with publication and other biases in meta-analysis.
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Summary
Asymmetrical funnel plots may indicate publication bias or be due to exaggeration of treatment effects in small studies of low quality; funnel plots should be seen as a means of examining “small study effects” rather than a tool for diagnosing specific types of bias.
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- review
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- 2001-07-14
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Keywords
Adipose tissue, Biology, Immune system, Cell type, Innate immune system
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