Barely Significant
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Meta-analysis, Simpson's paradox, and the number needed to treat.

BMC Med Res Methodol · 2002 · PMC65634 · PMID 11860606

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Our comments are: 1 The evidence of an effect in hospital patients is fairly weak, being only marginally statistically significant. 2 The estimated effect in primary care has a confidence interval that goes way above the whole CI for secondary care, so that it is quite inappropriate to dismiss the intervention on such slight evidence.

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