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Letter: Meta-analysis can be statistically misleading
  1. Jacob M Puliyel, MRCP, MPHIL, MD1,
  2. Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, PhD2
  1. 1West Middlesex University Hospital London London, UK
  2. 2All India Institute of Medical Science Delhi, India

    https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm.10.5.130-a

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