Addressing Continuous Data for Participants Excluded from Trial Analysis: A Guide for Systematic Reviewers

September 2013 in “ Journal of Clinical Epidemiology ”

Shanil Ebrahim, Elie A. Akl, Reem A. Mustafa, Xin Sun, Stephen D. Walter, Diane Heels‐Ansdell, Pablo Alonso‐Coello, Bradley C. Johnston, Gordon Guyatt

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Studysummary This study developed a framework to handle missing participant data in systematic reviews for continuous outcomes, finding varied impacts on confidence in effect estimates across reviewed cases.

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