For non-COVID-19 pneumonia patients across four datasets, the random effects model for this subgroup suggested a lower OR of 0.8779, which approached significance (95% CI: 0.7666–1.0054).
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Prognostic value of C-reactive protein levels in pulmonary infections: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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Tests for differences among these subgroups yielded a Q value of 4.92 with a P value of .0853 in the random effects model, suggesting that while there were observable trends, the differences between the subgroups did not reach statistical significance. 3.8.
The common effect model, which assumes a single underlying effect size, yielded an OR of 1.0075 with a 95% CI ranging from 1.0064 to 1.0085, and this result was highly significant with a z value of 13.99 and a P value of less than .0001.
While this result approached statistical significance, it did not reach conventional levels of significance with a z-score of 1.86 and a P value of .0633.