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The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate healthcare interventions: explanation and elaboration.

BMJ · 2009 · PMC2714672 · PMID 19622552

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nominally significantno p-value reported
If the reviewers decide not to combine the data quantitatively, a danger is that eventually they may end up using quasi-quantitative rules of poor validity (such as vote counting of how many studies have nominally significant results) for interpreting the evidence.

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