Function to examine publication bias. For both fixed- and random-effects models, estimates from no-pooling effects model are used as study-specific estimates. For random-effects models, the corresponding fixed-effects models are implemented at background to obtain pooled estimate. For example, if users call bmeta to run random-effects meta-analysis with normal prior, fixed-effects meta-analysis with normal prior are implemented at background to obtain pooled estimate for graphing. In the absence of publication and heterogeneity, the scatter resembles a symmetrical funnel and the triangle area formed by connecting the centred summary estimate with its 2.5% and 97.5% quantiles on either side includes about 95% of the studies if the fixed-effects model assumption holds (i.e. all the studies estimate the same effect).

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A prerequisite of evidence based healthcare is that medical interventions are analysed in clinical trials and the findings from these trials are used to inform decision making in the healthcare system. The selective publication of clinical trials (publication bias) and their outcomes (outcome reporting bias) have been identified as major problems distorting the scientific evidence available. As a result, perception of the effects of healthcare interventions based on published literature is biased towards overestimating benefits and underestimating harms.1 2 3 4 5 This problem of distorted public record is widely prevalent.6. To solve the problem, study registration (disclosure at inception that a study is being conducted) and results registration (posting of results after a study has been completed) have been partly implemented using publicly accessible databases. Usually, the details provided at inception and after completion both include information on study methods.. Initiatives to promote ...

Publication bias has long been associated with funnel plot asymmetry.10 Among published studies, however, the probability of identifying relevant trials for meta-analysis is also influenced by their results. English language bias-the preferential publication of negative findings in journals published in languages other than English-makes the location and inclusion of such studies less likely.8 As a consequence of citation bias, negative studies are quoted less frequently and are therefore more likely to be missed in the search for relevant trials.7 36 Results of positive trials are sometimes reported more than once, increasing the probability that they will be located for meta-analysis (multiple publication bias).37 These biases are likely to affect smaller studies to a greater degree than large trials.. Another source of asymmetry arises from differences in methodological quality. Smaller studies are, on average, conducted and analysed with less methodological rigour than larger studies. ...

Downloadable! Meta-regression models are increasingly utilized to integrate empirical results across studies while controlling for the potential threats of data-mining and publication bias. We propose extended meta-regression models and evaluate their performance in identifying genuine em- pirical effects by means of a comprehensive simulation study for various scenarios that are prevalent in empirical economics. We can show that the meta-regression models here pro- posed systematically outperform the prior gold standard of meta-regression analysis of re- gression coefficients. Most meta-regression models are robust to the presence of publication bias, but data-mining bias leads to seriously inflated type I errors and has to be addressed explicitly.

Robert Clarke and colleagues conduct a meta-analysis of unpublished datasets to examine the causal relationship between elevation of homocysteine levels in the blood and the risk of coronary heart disease. Their data suggest that an increase in homocysteine levels is not likely to result in an increase in risk of coronary heart disease.

TY - JOUR. T1 - P53 abnormalities and outcomes in colorectal cancer: a systematic review. AU - Munro, A. J.. AU - Lain, S.. AU - Lane, D. P.. N1 - dc.publisher: Nature Publishing Group PY - 2005/2. Y1 - 2005/2. N2 - We performed a systematic review of studies that investigated the effect of abnormalities of the tumour suppressor gene p53 upon prognosis in patients with colorectal cancer. The methods used to assess p53 status were immunohistochemistry (IHC), indicating abnormal accumulation of p53, and sequence analysis, indicating presence of p53 mutations (mut). We identified 168 reports, with 241 comparisons of relevant end points and survival data on 18766 patients. We found evidence of both publication bias and heterogeneity of results. Our analysis was hampered by variability in both the assessment of p53 status and the reporting of results. We used a trim and fill method to correct for publication bias and minimised heterogeneity by using well-defined clinical subgroups for the assessment ...

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A Tandem Process for analyzing publication bias has long been recommended for slicing down Wrong beneficial mistake complications.[20] This Tandem strategy is made up of a few stages. First of all, a single calculates Orwins fall short-Secure N, to examine what number of scientific tests ought to be added as a way to reduce the check statistic to your trivial dimension. If this amount of scientific tests is bigger than the volume of research Employed in the meta-analysis, it is a sign that theres no publication bias, as in that case, one demands loads of experiments to decrease the effect size ...

RESULTS A total of 19 observational studies with 296,439 individuals (30.1% with NAFLD) and nearly 16,000 cases of incident diabetes over a median of 5 years were included in the final analysis. Patients with NAFLD had a greater risk of incident diabetes than those without NAFLD (random-effects hazard ratio [HR] 2.22, 95% CI 1.84-2.60; I2 = 79.2%). Patients with more severe NAFLD were also more likely to develop incident diabetes; this risk increased across the ultrasonographic scores of steatosis (n = 3 studies), but it appeared to be even greater among NAFLD patients with advanced high NAFLD fibrosis score (n = 1 study; random-effects HR 4.74, 95% CI 3.54-5.94). Sensitivity analyses did not alter these findings. Funnel plot and Egger test did not reveal significant publication bias. Study limitations included high heterogeneity, varying degrees of confounder adjustment across individual studies, and lack of studies using liver biopsy ...

For the primary (dichotomous) outcome, relative risks (RRs) and 95% CI were computed using random-effects models (11). The weighted MD and corresponding 95% CI were computed using random-effects models for continuous variables. Between-studies heterogeneity was assessed using the Cochran Q test (based on the pooled RR by Mantel-Haenszel), as well as by measuring inconsistency (I2 [the percentage of total variance across studies attributable to heterogeneity rather than chance]) of treatment effects across trials (12). We used Beggs funnel plot to assess for publication bias for the primary outcome of all-cause mortality (13). Quality assessment of the analyzed RCTs was performed by Jadads method (14). Since the majority of included studies (13 of 14 treatment arms) had a quality score of 4/4 for mortality, suggesting high quality, a formal quality score and/or weighting of results was not calculated. For exercise capacity, only 1 study had nonblinded assessment of outcome. As a number of ...

It has been reported that microRNA-206(miR-206) plays an important role in cancers and could be used as a prognostic biomarker. However, the results are controversial. Therefore, we summarize all available evidence and present a meta-analysis to estimate the prognostic value of miR-206 in various cancers. The relevant studies were collected by searching PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science databases until August 21, 2020. Hazard ratios (HRs) and odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were applied to explore the association between miR-206 and survival results and clinicopathologic features. Sources of heterogeneity were investigated by subgroup analysis and sensitivity analysis. Publication bias was evaluated using Eggers test. Twenty articles involving 2095 patients were included in the meta-analysis. The pooled HR showed that low miR-206 expression was significantly associated with unfavourable overall survival (OS) (|span class=inline_break||svg xmlns:xlink=http://www.w3.org/1999

Because of its analgesic properties and lack of gastrointestinal side effects, paracetamol has long been seen as a relatively safe medication for the relief of fever and mild to moderate pain in children. Recently, however, ibuprofen has emerged as an alternative. With choice, questions invariably arise as to which drug is superior. Existing findings on the effectiveness and safety of these drugs in adults cannot be generalised to children. Thus, the meta-analysis by Perrott et al is of particular interest. The authors searched for relevant studies using numerous data sources, included only studies with randomised blinded designs, and verified the reliability of independently coded outcome measures with appropriate statistics. The authors stated that no unpublished studies were identified by hand searches, contact with pharmaceutical companies, or a posting on an international listserv. Nonetheless, the possibility exists that a publication bias of unknown size and direction may be ...

Cell-assisted lipotransfer is a novel technique for fat grafting. This study aimed to investigate the clinical efficacy of cell-assisted lipotransfer technology compared with conventional fat grafting. According to PRISMA guidelines, related articles in PubMed, Embase and Cochrane library were systematically searched. Studies focusing on fat survival rate and/or patient satisfaction rate for fat grafting alone versus cell-assisted lipotransfer were retrieved. Estimated fat survival and patient satisfaction rates were pooled. Subgroup analysis was stratified by the transplant site. Publication bias was conducted. Furthermore, the stability of results was assessed by sensitivity analysis. Nine articles were included in the meta-analysis. Significant heterogeneity was observed among individual studies for fat survival rate assessment (I 2 = 98.3%, P | 0.001). The fat survival rate was significantly higher in the cell-assisted lipotransfer group than in the control group [weighted

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Use of NIV decreased the risk of mortality by 46% (risk ratio (RR) 0.54, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.38 to 0.76; N = 12 studies; number needed to treat for an additional beneficial outcome (NNTB) 12, 95% CI 9 to 23) and decreased the risk of needing endotracheal intubation by 65% (RR 0.36, 95% CI 0.28 to 0.46; N = 17 studies; NNTB 5, 95% CI 5 to 6). We graded both outcomes as moderate quality owing to uncertainty regarding risk of bias for several studies. Inspection of the funnel plot related to need for endotracheal intubation raised the possibility of some publication bias pertaining to this outcome. NIV use was also associated with reduced length of hospital stay (mean difference (MD) -3.39 days, 95% CI -5.93 to -0.85; N = 10 studies), reduced incidence of complications (unrelated to NIV) (RR 0.26, 95% CI 0.13 to 0.53; N = 2 studies), and improvement in pH (MD 0.05, 95% CI 0.02 to 0.07; N = 8 studies) and in partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2) (MD 7.47 mmHg, 95% CI 0.78 to 14.16 mmHg; N = ...

As far as I am concerned, discussions around the pros and cons of various methods are perfectly fine, esp. if they are directly linked to implementations in R. So, we are considering two methods: 1) A random-effects model with the standard 1/(vi + tau^2) weights (where vi is the sampling variance of the ith study and tau^2 the (estimated) amount of variance/heterogeneity in the true outcomes) versus 2) A random-effects model with 1/vi weights. Under the assumptions of the RE model and in the absence of publication bias, both approaches provide an unbiased estimate of the average true outcome. Approach 1 is more efficient; in fact, using 1/(vi + tau^2) weights gives us the uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator (UMVUE). Sidenote: To be precise, that is only true if tau^2 would be a known quantity and not estimated (and similarly, the sampling variances must be known quantities). So, really, we are only getting an approximation to the UMVUE. The larger k (number of studies) is, the more ...

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The blog post today got started yesterday when I found that there was a Fred Eggers who was born on this day. I contacted our own Fred Eggers to see how he was related. By the time all was said and done, Fred Eggers decided to write this story about Fred Eggers. My thanks go…

Big Pharma Plays Hide-the-Ball With Data But if Tamiflu does nothing, and there s even a slight chance of life-threatening side effects, why was it approved? And why continue to prescribe it? That s what the Cochrane Collaboration argued in a report it published in April. http://www.newsweek.com/2014/11/21/medical-science-has-data-problem-284066.html The most infamous case of publication bias is a 1980 study in which heart attack patients were split into two groups: One group received a drug called lorcainide, while the other group received a placebo. Researchers wanted to ...

Fig. 6. How P value selection from underpowered studies and publication bias conspire to overestimate effect size. The simulations draw random data from a Gaussian (normal) distribution. For controls, the theoretical mean is 4.0. For treated, the theoretical mean is 5.0. So, the true difference between population means is 1.0. The S.D. of both populations was set to 1.0 for the simulations in (A) and was set to 0.5 for those in (B). For each simulation, five replicates were randomly drawn for each population, an unpaired t test was run, and both the difference between means and the two-sided P value were tabulated. Each panel shows the results of 1000 simulated experiments. The left half of each panel shows the difference between means for all the simulated experiments. Half the simulated experiments have a difference greater than 1.0 (the simulated population difference), and half have a difference smaller than 1.0. There is more variation in (A) because the S.D. was higher. There are no ...

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Editor: See notation at the end of this article, including updates, regarding additional article on this site.]. For several years weve been hearing about a form of lifting called super slow, where each repetition is performed slowly (up 10 second, pause, down five seconds, for example). The basic concept - to place greater demand on the muscles by eliminating momentum - is not new. The difference is the extreme slowness of the reps and the claims by some that this is the best (and safest) way to train for size and strength - and some would even add aerobic fitness.. Until now, I havent written about this subject, because there is no research published in peer reviewed journals comparing the efficacy of slow and fast lifting. (One unpublished study reported a 27 pound strength increase for slow training compared to 22 pounds for regular speed.) Frankly, lifting very slowly has never appealed to me. It sounds like a very hard and unpleasant way to train. Anything I wrote would simply be my ...

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Namo Buddha Publications The Sutra of the Medicine Buddha translated by Thanh (PDF) [BPM300] - Al the various Medicine Buddha Practices are based on this Sutra which has been translated into English by Mimh Thanh. Since he offered this translation for free, we also are honored to offer it for no cost.

The purpose of this comprehensive meta-analysis was to assess the association of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) expression with overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS)/progression-free survival (PFS) in ovarian cancer patients. Systematic searches of Pubmed databases was performed to identify relevant literature published before February 28, 2018. A total of 14 studies (13 articles) with 2210 ovarian cancer patients were pooled. All included studies were performed by using Immunohistochemistry (IHC) for detection of ALDH expression. Hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were extracted from included studies to evaluate the correlation of ALDH expression with OS and DFS/PFS. High expression of ALDH was associated with worse OS (HR: 1.43; 95% CI: 1.18-1.73) and poor DFS/PFS (HR: 1.55, 95% CI: 1.12-2.14). No evidence of publication bias was observed in OS (Beggs test, P = 0.113; Eggers test, P = 0.355) and DFS/PFS (Beggs test, P = 0.655; Eggers test, P = 0.189) in ovarian

The association between dietary carbohydrate intake and colorectal cancer (CRC) risk remains controversial. We therefore conducted this meta-analysis to assess the relationship between them. A literature search from the databases of PubMed, Embase, Web of Science and Medline was performed for available articles published in English (up to September 2016). Pooled relative risk (RR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) was calculated to evaluate the association between dietary carbohydrate intake and CRC risk. The random-effect model (REM) was selected as the pooling method. Publication bias was estimated using Eggers regression asymmetry test and funnel plot. A total of 17 articles involving 14402 CRC patients and 846004 participants were eligible with the inclusion criteria in this meta-analysis. The pooled RR with 95% CI of dietary carbohydrate intake for CRC, colon cancer and rectum cancer risk were 1.08 (95% CI =0.93-1.23, I2 =68.3%, Pheterogeneity,0.001), 1.09 (95% CI =0.95-1.25, I2 =48.3%) ...

1) Acupuncture has been assessed in hundreds of published comparative trials involving thousands of patients in a variety of situations. (2) Most of these trials are handicapped by their poor methodological quality. (3) Systematic reviews have found evidence of specific benefit in the treatment of nausea and vomiting, both postoperatively and during pregnancy. Unfortunately, the practical implications of these results are limited, notably because various methods were used to stimulate the relevant acupuncture points (needle insertion, finger pressure, electrical stimulation ...

Whether video games with aggressive content contribute to aggressive behaviour in youth has been a matter of contention for decades. Recent re-evaluation of experimental evidence suggests that the literature suffers from publication bias, and that experimental studies are unable to demonstrate compelling short-term effects of aggressive game content on aggression. Long-term effects may still be plausible, if less-systematic short-term effects accumulate into systematic effects over time. However, longitudinal studies vary considerably in regard to whether they indicate long-term effects or not, and few analyses have considered what methodological factors may explain this heterogeneity in outcomes. The current meta-analysis included 28 independent samples including approximately 21 000 youth. Results revealed an overall effect size for this population of studies (r = 0.059) with no evidence of publication bias. Effect sizes were smaller for longer longitudinal periods, calling into question ...

PART A: META-ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY: THE BASICS Introduction: Meta-analysis: Its Development and Uses Defining Outcome Measures used for Combining via Meta-analysis Random Effects Models for Combining Study Estimates Exploring Between Study Heterogeneity Publication Bias Study Quality Sensitivity Analysis Reporting the Results of a Meta-analysis Fixed Effects Methods for Combining Study Estimates PART B: ADVANCED AND SPECIALIZED META-ANALYSIS TOPICS Bayesian Methods in Meta-analysis Meta Regression Meta-analysis of Different Types of Data Incorporating Study Quality into a Meta-analysis Meta-analysis of Multiple and Correlated Outcome Measures Meta-analysis of Epidemiological and other Observational Studies Generalised Synthesis of Evidence ...

People often talk about trials transparency as if this means all trials must be published in an academic journal. In reality, true transparency goes much further than this. We need Clinical Study Reports, and individual patient data, of course. But we also need the consent forms, so we can see what patients were told. We need the analytic code, so we can see exactly how the data were analysed. We need access to post-publication peer review, so we can see what design flaws others have identified. And we dont just need these things to be publicly available, in some form or another: we ideally need them to be available as open data, freely shareable and re-usable, which is a very different kettle of ballpark. And then, of course, we need this data to be used, which means we need to think about building tools that make it useful. Finally, we cant just whine about the world not being as we would wish it to be, or write academic papers describing the problem: we need a practical theory of ...

A recent post on Spiegelhalters blog gives data and produces a funnel plot for the proportion of children that are placed with adoptive parents within 12 months. The data is aggregated for various regions in England, which are called local authorities. (You can download the data in a CSV file.) To give you some idea of the data, one authority (Kent) placed 162 out of 235 children (69%) with adoptive parents within 12 months. Another (Chesire East) handled only 15 cases and placed 10 of the children (67%). A funnel plot (shown below) is a way to compare the proportion of children that are placed within 12 months for each of 143 regions. The horizontal line shows the nationwide proportion of children that are placed within 12 months. The funnel-shaped curves are the 95% and 99.8% quantile curves under the assumption that proportions are sampled from a binomial distribution for which the probability of success (placing a child) equals the national average. Because a statistic computed on a ...

Contents Meta-analysis is the statistical methodology for combining quantitative evidence from different (clinical) studies. Meta-analysis is very prominent in medical research, where it features in almost every systematic review, but it is also attracting increasing interest in other fields such as economics. Major practical concerns which fuel methodological research to this day are the need to detect and adjust for possible biases such as publication bias, synthesis from studies which compared different combinations of interventions or studies that measured interventions on different scales or with different outcomes ...

On July 26, 2004, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the largest publicly funded granting agency in Canada, announced that all new CIHR-funded randomized controlled trials (RCTs) must be registered with an International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number (ISRCTN).1 Basic information about each registered trial will be posted on the public Web site of the ISRCTN register (www.controlled-trials.com), and the ISRCTN will be cited in any subsequent publication of trial results. CIHRs decision to adopt an open trial-registry approach was based in large part on the set of values articulated in the Institutes strategic plan, Blueprint 2007.2 Those values include the public interest, sound ethical principles, excellence, public transparency, accountability and collaboration. CIHR hopes that, among other benefits, trial registration will encourage and increase collaboration among researchers, the private sector and the community, reduce the risk of publication bias, reduce the ...

Only half of all clinical trials globally have reported results. Dr. Quattrochi will describe the current landscape for publication bias and how this lack of clinical trial transparency has shaped our medicine. She will dive into why withheld clinical trial data may hold valuable insight into progressing our medical system by touching on cases where unpublished or poorly published clinical trial data has negatively impacted patients, the medical community and/or fellow pharmaceutical researchers. Thereafter, she will detail how the AllTrials campaign aims to address and rejuvenate scientific data sharing on a global level.. ...

Over the last 10 years, 14 epidemiological studies1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 and experimental studies15 16 17 have consistently shown that passive smoking increases the risk of heart disease death. Combining these studies in a meta-analysis yields an estimate that passive smoking significantly increases the risk of death from heart disease by about 20% (RR, 1.2; 95% CI, 1.1 to 1.4). As with the evidence that passive smoking causes lung cancer,18 19 20 the tobacco industry has vigorously attacked these studies as too small, biased, or failing to control for confounding variables adequately. These arguments have become harder to make over time as the number and quality of epidemiological studies on both lung cancer and heart disease have improved, so the tobacco industry has started to emphasize a new explanation: publication bias.. For example, in the 1994-1995 hearings held by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on a proposed rule making workplaces smoke ...

Systematic bias favours products which are made by the company funding the research. Explanations include the selection of an inappropriate comparator to the product being investigated and publication bias.

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Circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) which may be extracted from plasma or serum by noninvasive procedures has demonstrated great potential to anticipate SL 0101-1 treatment response and survival for cancer patients. grouped regarding to genotype discovered in cfDNA. Nevertheless NSCLC sufferers which harbored activating mutation in cfDNA got a greater potential for response to EGFR-TKIs (chances proportion or OR 1.96 95 CI 1.59 No significant publication bias was discovered in this scholarly research. To conclude cfDNA could become a predictive and prognostic biomarker for sufferers with NSCLC. mutation position in NSCLC [17 18 These MMP17 evidences recommended that genotype in cfDNA is actually a guaranteeing tumor biomarker for NSCLC. A lot of studies got looked into the predictive or prognostic worth of cfDNA focus in NSCLC sufferers lately [19-22] (discover Table ?Desk11 for sources). These research were often little and SL 0101-1 reported various outcomes However. A few of them demonstrated a ...

Matching grants are one of the most common policy instruments used by developing country governments to try to foster technological upgrading, innovation, exports, use of business development services and other activities leading to firm growth. However, since they involve subsidizing firms, the risk is that they could crowd out private investment, subsidizing activities that firms were planning to undertake anyway, or lead to pure private gains, rather than generating the public gains that justify government intervention. As a result, rigorous evaluation of the effects of such programs is important. The authors attempted to implement randomized experiments to evaluate the impact of seven matching grant programs offered in six African countries, but in each case were unable to complete an experimental evaluation. One critique of randomized experiments is publication bias, whereby only those experiments with \interesting\ results get published. The hope is to mitigate this bias by learning from ...

Humans tend to look for evidence that reinforces our beliefs, not evidence that contradicts them. This is called confirmation bias. A related problem is that people tend to publish results that show various treatments or interventions working, but not results that show them failing to work, because the latter is less interesting. This is called publication bias.. In the spirit of combating those things, Im going to share some things that didnt work for me.. Rolfing. Rolfing is basically a kind of massage (though Rolfers insist theres a difference) with a slight amount of evidence that it produces feelings of relaxation over longer periods of time than other massage methods. Rolfers are certified by the Rolfing Institute, and put you through a series of ten sessions. Then youre done, permanently. They say it takes a few months for the changes to become manifest, and its been a few months, so Im now ready to talk about what it did for me.. Rolfing is famously uncomfortable. During sessions I ...

Humans tend to look for evidence that reinforces our beliefs, not evidence that contradicts them. This is called confirmation bias. A related problem is that people tend to publish results that show various treatments or interventions working, but not results that show them failing to work, because the latter is less interesting. This is called publication bias.. In the spirit of combating those things, Im going to share some things that didnt work for me.. Rolfing. Rolfing is basically a kind of massage (though Rolfers insist theres a difference) with a slight amount of evidence that it produces feelings of relaxation over longer periods of time than other massage methods. Rolfers are certified by the Rolfing Institute, and put you through a series of ten sessions. Then youre done, permanently. They say it takes a few months for the changes to become manifest, and its been a few months, so Im now ready to talk about what it did for me.. Rolfing is famously uncomfortable. During sessions I ...

Schmucker C, Bluemle A, Briel M, Portalupi S, Lang B, Motschall E, Schwarzer G, Bassler D, Mueller KF, von Elm E, Meerpohl JJ, on behalf of the OPEN Consortium: A protocol for a systematic review on the impact of unpublished studies and studies published in the gray literature in meta-analyses. Systematic Reviews, 2013; 2 (online): 24. : http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-2-24 ...

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