Exclusion of studies with no events in both arms in meta-analysis impacted the conclusions.
Xu Chang, Li Ling, Lin Lifeng, +4 more·Journal of clinical epidemiology
OBJECTIVES: Classical meta-analyses routinely treated studies with no events in both arms noninformative and excluded them from analyses. This study assessed whether such studies contain information and have an influence on the conclusions of meta-analyses. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We collected meta-analyses of binar…