I'd also question quite a few elements of the study - just one point, pooling odds ratios for mostly continuous data is not a good idea. Much more reasonably to use a weighted mean difference where possible, especially as most outcome data (i.e. pain level) is continuous
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Also, I'm interested to know what methodology was used in that meta-analysis that you are citing, because I re-ran the code in Stata 15 using the metan command with their exact odds ratios and CIs and it was entirely non-significantpic.twitter.com/V5FCEAHGVz
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@EdzardErnst do you know what model was used in this study (see above)? There doesn't seem to be any information in the published work, which is worrying particularly as there are no study weights given in the study - Show replies
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