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Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, 2012

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The Impact of Study Size on Meta-analyses: Examination of Underpowered Studies in Cochrane Reviews

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Sequential methods for random-effects meta-analysis

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Corticosteroids in the Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock in Adults

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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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Hydrocortisone Therapy for Patients with Septic Shock

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What is “quality of evidence” and why is it important to clinicians?

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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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