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Sequential meta-analysis: an efficient decision-making tool

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Sequential methods for random-effects meta-analysis

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Estimating required information size by quantifying diversity in random-effects model meta-analyses

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Updating meta-analyses leads to larger type I errors than publication bias

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Can trial sequential monitoring boundaries reduce spurious inferences from meta-analyses?

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Apparently conclusive meta-analyses may be inconclusive—Trial sequential analysis adjustment of random error risk due to repetitive testing of accumulating data in apparently conclusive neonatal meta-analyses

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Trial sequential analysis reveals insufficient information size and potentially false positive results in many meta-analyses

(2008) Jesper Brok et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Empirical evidence of bias in treatment effect estimates in controlled trials with different interventions and outcomes: meta-epidemiological study

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GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations

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Trial sequential analysis may establish when firm evidence is reached in cumulative meta-analysis

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