A guide to prospective meta-analysis

Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: the PRISMA statement

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Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

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Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA Statement.

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Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement

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ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions

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Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference

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GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction—GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables

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Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.0.1. The Cochrane Collaboration

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GRADE guidelines 6. Rating the quality of evidence—imprecision

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Preferred Reporting Items for a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data: The PRISMA-IPD Statement

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The COMET Handbook: version 1.0

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The Mass Production of Redundant, Misleading, and Conflicted Systematic Reviews and Meta‐analyses

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The nuts and bolts of PROSPERO: an international prospective register of systematic reviews

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Publication bias: the case for an international registry of clinical trials.

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Living systematic review: 1. Introduction-the why, what, when, and how

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The Continuing Unethical Conduct of Underpowered Clinical Trials

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Outcome reporting bias in randomized trials funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research

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Association Between Oxygen Saturation Targeting and Death or Disability in Extremely Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Oxygenation Prospective Meta-analysis Collaboration

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Meta‐research: The art of getting it wrong

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NeOProM: Neonatal Oxygenation Prospective Meta-analysis Collaboration study protocol

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Effects of targeting lower versus higher arterial oxygen saturations on death or disability in preterm infants

Askie, L. M., Darlow, B. A., Davis, P. G., Finer, N., Stenson, B. J., Vento, M., & Whyte, R. K. (2017) · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · doi:10.1002/14651858.cd011190.pub2 · Cited by 206 · see citing works

Increased 36-Week Survival with High Oxygen Saturation Target in Extremely Preterm Infants

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Next-generation systematic reviews: prospective meta-analysis, individual-level data, networks and umbrella reviews

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Living systematic reviews: 3. Statistical methods for updating meta-analyses

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Preparing a Cochrane Review

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Resolving our uncertainty about oxygen therapy.

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When are clinical trials registered? An analysis of prospective versus retrospective registration

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Compliance with prospective trial registration guidance remained low in high-impact journals and has implications for primary end point reporting

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Prospective registration trends, reasons for retrospective registration and mechanisms to increase prospective registration compliance: descriptive analysis and survey

Hunter, K. E., Seidler, A. L., & Askie, L. M. (2018) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019983 · Cited by 52 · see citing works

Systematic reviews and meta-analysis

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Challenges of identifying unpublished data from clinical trials: Getting the best out of clinical trials registers and other novel sources

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Prevalence of trial registration varies by study characteristics and risk of bias

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Lessons Learned from a Prospective Meta‐analysis

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Prospective Meta‐Analysis

Ghersi, D., Berlin, J. A., & Askie, L. M. (2008) · doi:10.1002/9780470712184.ch19 · Cited by 12 · see citing works

Prospective Meta‐analysis: Ahoy! A Clinical Trial?

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Child and adolescent obesity

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Adjuvant or early salvage radiotherapy for the treatment of localised and locally advanced prostate cancer: a prospectively planned systematic review and meta-analysis of aggregate data

Vale, C. L., Fisher, D. J., Kneebone, A. B., Parker, C. C., Pearse, M., Richaud, P. M., Sargos, P., Sydes, M. R., Brawley, C., Brihoum, M., et al. (2020) · The Lancet · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(20)31952-8 · Cited by 413 · see citing works

Investigating and dealing with publication bias and other reporting biases in meta-analyses of health research: a review

Page, M. J., Sterne, J. A. C., Higgins, J. P. T., & Egger, M. (2021) · Research Synthesis Methods · doi:10.1002/jrsm.1468 · Cited by 294 · see citing works

Diets for weight management in adults with type 2 diabetes: an umbrella review of published meta-analyses and systematic review of trials of diets for diabetes remission

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SPIRIT 2025 explanation and elaboration: updated guideline for protocols of randomised trials

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Umbilical Cord Management for Newborns <34 Weeks' Gestation: A Meta-analysis

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Interventions commenced by early infancy to prevent childhood obesity—The EPOCH Collaboration: An individual participant data prospective meta‐analysis of four randomized controlled trials

Askie, L. M., Espinoza, D., Martin, A. J., Daniels, L., Mihrshahi, S., Taylor, R. W., Wen, L. M., Campbell, K. J., Hesketh, K. D., Rissel, C. E., et al. (2020) · Pediatric Obesity · doi:10.1111/ijpo.12618 · Cited by 89 · see citing works

Searching clinical trials registers: guide for systematic reviewers

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Does differentiated instruction affect learning outcome Systematic review and meta-analysis

Asriadi, M., Hadi, S., Istiyono, E., & Retnawati, H. (2023) · Journal of Pedagogical Research · doi:10.33902/jpr.202322021 · Cited by 83 · see citing works

Effects of oral anticoagulation in people with atrial fibrillation after spontaneous intracranial haemorrhage (COCROACH): prospective, individual participant data meta-analysis of randomised trials

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Initial Oxygen Concentration for the Resuscitation of Infants Born at Less Than 32 Weeks’ Gestation

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A new ecosystem for evidence synthesis

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Effects of delayed versus immediate umbilical cord clamping in reducing death or major disability at 2 years corrected age among very preterm infants (APTS): a multicentre, randomised clinical trial

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Range-wide declines of northern spotted owl populations in the Pacific Northwest: A meta-analysis

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Microbe-Mediated Thermotolerance in Plants and Pertinent Mechanisms- A Meta-Analysis and Review

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Obesity and COVID-19: A Perspective from the European Association for the Study of Obesity on Immunological Perturbations, Therapeutic Challenges, and Opportunities in Obesity

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Data sharing—trialists' plans at registration, attitudes, barriers and facilitators: A cohort study and cross‐sectional survey

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Finding the right power balance: Better study design and collaboration can reduce dependence on statistical power

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A practical guide to preclinical systematic review and meta-analysis

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Motor Control Stabilisation Exercise for Patients with Non-Specific Low Back Pain: A Prospective Meta-Analysis with Multilevel Meta-Regressions on Intervention Effects

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Implementation strategies to improve statin utilization in individuals with hypercholesterolemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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In utero exposure to bisphenols and asthma, wheeze, and lung function in school-age children: a prospective meta-analysis of 8 European birth cohorts

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Understanding, comparing and learning from the four EPOCH early childhood obesity prevention interventions: A multi‐methods study

Seidler, A. L., Hunter, K. E., Johnson, B. J., Ekambareshwar, M., Taki, S., Mauch, C. E., Mihrshahi, S., Askie, L. M., Campbell, K. J., Daniels, L., et al. (2020) · Pediatric Obesity · doi:10.1111/ijpo.12679 · Cited by 34 · see citing works

Eight puzzles of leadership science

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Transforming Obesity Prevention for CHILDren (TOPCHILD) Collaboration: protocol for a systematic review with individual participant data meta-analysis of behavioural interventions for the prevention of early childhood obesity

Hunter, K. E., Johnson, B. J., Askie, L. M., Golley, R. K., Baur, L. A., Marschner, I. C., Taylor, R. W., Wolfenden, L., Wood, C. T., Mihrshahi, S., et al. (2022) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048166 · Cited by 32 · see citing works

A framework for prospective, adaptive meta-analysis (FAME) of aggregate data from randomised trials.

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Assessing and visualizing fragility of clinical results with binary outcomes in R using the fragility package

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Systematic reviews and meta-analyses in regional anesthesia and pain medicine (Part II): guidelines for performing the systematic review

D'Souza, R. S., Barrington, M. J., Sen, A., Mascha, E. J., & Kelley, G. A. (2023) · Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine · doi:10.1136/rapm-2023-104802 · Cited by 30 · see citing works

Robust point and variance estimation for meta‐analyses with selective reporting and dependent effect sizes

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Clinical outcomes in the surgical management of ankle fractures: A systematic review and meta-analysis of fibular intramedullary nail fixation vs. open reduction and internal fixation in randomized controlled trials

Walsh, J. P., Hsiao, M. S., LeCavalier, D., McDermott, R., Gupta, S., & Watson, T. S. (2022) · Foot and Ankle Surgery · doi:10.1016/j.fas.2022.03.009 · Cited by 25 · see citing works

Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (Part II): Guidelines for Performing the Systematic Review

D'Souza, R. S., Barrington, M. J., Sen, A., Mascha, E. J., & Kelley, G. A. (2023) · Anesthesia & Analgesia · doi:10.1213/ane.0000000000006607 · Cited by 25 · see citing works

Registration of health and medical research

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The Complex Quest of Preventing Obesity in Early Childhood: Describing Challenges and Solutions Through Collaboration and Innovation

Seidler, A. L., Johnson, B. J., Golley, R. K., & Hunter, K. E. (2022) · Frontiers in Endocrinology · doi:10.3389/fendo.2021.803545 · Cited by 24 · see citing works

Association between exposures to phthalate metabolites and preterm birth and spontaneous preterm birth: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Wang, X., Wang, L.-L., Tian, Y., Xiong, S., Liu, Y., Zhang, H., Shen, X., & Zhou, Y. (2022) · Reproductive Toxicology · doi:10.1016/j.reprotox.2022.07.006 · Cited by 24 · see citing works

A Review of Registered Randomized Controlled Trials for the Prevention of Obesity in Infancy

Mihrshahi, S., Jawad, D., Richards, L. A., Hunter, K. E., Ekambareshwar, M., Seidler, A. L., & Baur, L. A. (2021) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph18052444 · Cited by 22 · see citing works

Parent-focused behavioural interventions for the prevention of early childhood obesity (TOPCHILD): a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

Hunter, K. E., Nguyen, D., Libesman, S., Williams, J. G., Aberoumand, M., Aagerup, J., Johnson, B. J., Golley, R. K., Barba, A., Sotiropoulos, J. X., et al. (2025) · The Lancet · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(25)01144-4 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

New horizons for comparative studies and meta-analyses

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Incentive spirometry is an effective strategy to improve the quality of postoperative care in patients

Chang, P., Chen, P., Chang, T.-H., Chen, K.-H., Jhou, H., Chou, S., & Chang, T.-W. (2022) · Asian Journal of Surgery · doi:10.1016/j.asjsur.2022.11.030 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Rapid Reviews in Zeiten von COVID-19 – Erfahrungen im Zuge des Kompetenznetzes Public Health zu COVID-19 und Vorschlag eines standardisierten Vorgehens

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Intragastric Botulinum Toxin A Injection Is an Effective Obesity Therapy for Patients with BMI > 40 kg/m2: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Chang, P., Jhou, H., Chen, P., Huang, C., Chiang, H., Chen, K.-H., & Chang, T. (2020) · Obesity Surgery · doi:10.1007/s11695-020-04842-4 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Harmonization of maternal balanced energy-protein supplementation studies for individual participant data (IPD) meta-analyses – finding and creating similarities in variables and data collection

Gernand, A. D., Gallagher, K., Bhandari, N., Kolsteren, P. W., Lee, A. C., Shafiq, Y., Taneja, S., Tielsch, J. M., Workneh, F., Baye, E., et al. (2023) · BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth · doi:10.1186/s12884-023-05366-2 · Cited by 19 · see citing works

A Primer on Systematic Review and Meta-analysis in Diabetes Research

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Protocols for meta-analysis of intervention safety seldom specified methods to deal with rare events

Zhou, Y., Zhu, B., Lin, L., Kwong, J. S., & Xu, C. (2020) · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology · doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.09.023 · Cited by 18 · see citing works

Quantifying the advantages of conducting a prospective meta-analysis (PMA): a case study of early childhood obesity prevention

Seidler, A. L., Hunter, K. E., Espinoza, D., Mihrshahi, S., & Askie, L. M. (2021) · Trials · doi:10.1186/s13063-020-04984-x · Cited by 17 · see citing works

Prospective meta-analyses and Cochrane's role in embracing next-generation methodologies

Seidler, A. L., Hunter, K. E., Cheyne, S., Berlin, J. A., Ghersi, D., & Askie, L. M. (2020) · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · doi:10.1002/14651858.ed000145 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

The landscape of COVID‐19 trials in Australia

Seidler, A. L., Aberoumand, M., Williams, J. G., Tan, A., Hunter, K. E., & Webster, A. C. (2021) · The Medical Journal of Australia · doi:10.5694/mja2.51148 · Cited by 15 · see citing works

Supplementary education can improve the rate of adequate bowel preparation in outpatients: A systematic review and meta-analysis based on randomized controlled trials

Peng, S., Liu, S., Lei, J., Ren, W., Xiao, L., Liu, X., Lü, M., & Zhou, K. (2022) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0266780 · Cited by 15 · see citing works

Examining the sustainability of effects of early childhood obesity prevention interventions: Follow‐up of the EPOCH individual participant data prospective meta‐analysis

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Role of factor VIII, IX, and XI in venous thrombosis recurrence risk in adults and children: A systematic review

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How informative were early SARS-CoV-2 treatment and prevention trials? a longitudinal cohort analysis of trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov

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A guide to using technological applications to facilitate systematic reviews

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The association between influenza vaccination, cardiovascular mortality and hospitalization: A living systematic review and prospective meta-analysis

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Effect size benchmarks: Time for a causal renaissance

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How can we make sound replication decisions?

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Using Meta-Analysis and Propensity Score Methods to Assess Treatment Effects Toward Evidence-Based Practice in Extensive Reading

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PROspective Meta‐analysis Of Trials of Initial Oxygen in preterm Newborns ( PROMOTION ): Protocol for a systematic review and prospective meta‐analysis with individual participant data on initial oxygen concentration for resuscitation of preterm infants

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Individualized lifestyle intervention in PCOS women (IPOS): A study protocol for a multicentric randomized controlled trial for evaluating the effectiveness of an individualized lifestyle intervention in PCOS women who wish to conceive

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Protocol for a sequential, prospective meta-analysis to describe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the pregnancy and postpartum periods

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Effects of the Informed Health Choices secondary school intervention: A prospective meta‐analysis

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The AEDUCATE Collaboration. Comprehensive antenatal education birth preparation programmes to reduce the rates of caesarean section in nulliparous women. Protocol for an individual participant data prospective meta-analysis

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A technical review of three clinical trials register resources indicates where improvements to the search interfaces are needed

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Protocol for the development of Core Outcome Sets for Early intervention trials to Prevent Obesity in CHildren (COS-EPOCH)

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Overwhelming COVID-19 Clinical Trials: Call for Prospective Meta-Analyses

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Investigating and Dealing with Publication Bias and Other Reporting Biases

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Early vs. deferred catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia in patients of ischaemic substrate: systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical outcomes

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Non-inferiority of Rituximab versus OCrelizumab in Multiple Sclerosis (ROC-MS)—an individual participant data meta-analysis

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Development of the individual participant data integrity tool for assessing the integrity of randomised trials using individual participant data

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Protocol for balanced versus saline trialists: living systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (BEST-Living study)

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Eating disorders in weight-related therapy (EDIT): Protocol for a systematic review with individual participant data meta-analysis of eating disorder risk in behavioural weight management

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Effectiveness of full Pulpotomy compared with Root canal treatment in managing teeth with signs and symptOms indicative of irreversible pulpitis: a protocol for prospectiVE meta-analysis of individual participant data of linked randomised clinical trials (PROVE)

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Vibration of effect in more than 16 000 pooled analyses of individual participant data from 12 randomised controlled trials comparing canagliflozin and placebo for type 2 diabetes mellitus: multiverse analysis

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Pooled perspectives: Critical considerations for the modern meta-analysis

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Network meta-analyses in reproductive medicine: challenges and opportunities

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Improving the adoption of a school-based nutrition program: findings from a collaborative network of randomised trials

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Association of Clopidogrel Genetic Polymorphism With Efficacy and Safety for Ischemic Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack: A Systematic Review and Updated Meta-Analysis

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Improving systematic reviews: guidance on guidance and other options and challenges

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Statistical primer: individual patient data meta-analysis and meta-analytic approaches in case of non-proportional hazards

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Dexamethasone doses in patients with COVID ‐19 and hypoxia: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

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Air or Oxygen for Infant Resuscitation: A Prospective Cohort Study of Moderate-Late Preterm Infants Requiring Delivery Room Resuscitation

Sotiropoulos, J. X., Binoy, S., Pham, T. A. N., Yates, K., Allgood, C. L., Kunjunju, A., Tracy, M. B., Smyth, J. P., & Oei, J. L. (2024) · Neonatology · doi:10.1159/000539221 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine to reduce COVID-19 infections and hospitalisations in healthcare workers – a living systematic review and prospective ALL-IN meta-analysis of individual participant data from randomised controlled trialsPreprint

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Protocol for a systematic review with prospective individual patient data meta-analysis in EGFR-mutant NSCLC with brain metastases to assess the effect of SRS+osimertinib compared to osimertinib alone: the STARLET Collaboration

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Visualization toolkits for enriching meta-analyses through evidence maps, bibliometrics, and alternative impact metrics

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Sensitivity analyses assessing the impact of early stopping on systematic reviews: Recommendations for interpreting guidelines

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Association between influenza vaccination, all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality: a protocol for a living systematic review and prospective meta-analysis

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The power of integrating data: advancing pain research using meta-analysis

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Pengaruh Intensitas Kebisingan terhadap Gangguan Pendengaran pada Pekerja di Indonesia: Meta-Analisis

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Cerebral Oximetry–Guided Treatment and Cerebral Oxygenation in Extremely Preterm Infants

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A Bayesian model for combining standardized mean differences and odds ratios in the same meta-analysis

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Evaluating the efficacy, safety, and clinical effectiveness of IVF add-ons: Methodological challenges and future solutions

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Efficacy and safety of Ayurveda interventions for sinusitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Optimizing cord management for each preterm baby – Challenges of collating individual participant data and recommendations for future collaborative research

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Temperature probe placement in very preterm infants during delivery room stabilization: an open-label randomized trial

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Multiple imputation for systematically missing effect modifiers in individual participant data meta-analysis

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Why we need systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Don't miss the forest for the trees

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919Step-by-step guidance on prospective meta-analyses

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A Scoping Review of Published and Ongoing Prospective Meta-Analyses in Health Research: Study ProtocolPreprint

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Quantifying the advantages of conducting a prospective meta-analysis (PMA): a case study of early childhood obesity prevention

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Prospective meta-analyses and Cochrane's role in embracing next-generation methodologies

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