A comparative study of five telerehabilitation therapies for improving core symptoms in stroke patients: A network meta-analysis (2,833 patients).

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failed to reach statistical significancep = 0.11not close (p > 0.1)

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Brain-computer interfaces showed a trend toward improvement (SMD = −0.70, 95% CI: −1.57, 0.17) but failed to reach statistical significance ( p = 0.11), with high heterogeneity ( I 2 = 92%), indicating substantial variation in effect across studies.

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MD = 0.66, 95% CI: −0.15, 1.47; p = 0.11), though it did not reach statistical significance.

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