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Table 1 The summary statistics for 18 meta-analyses carried out by the MAG.

From: Quantifying, displaying and accounting for heterogeneity in the meta-analysis of RCTs using standard and generalised Qstatistics

Meta-analysis

# trials

Q, P-value

(%)

Fixed Effect HR (CI) P-value

cervix 1 [15]

18

44.48, 0.00

62

1.05 (0.93-1.19) 0.39

cervix 2 [17]

18

20.83 0.23

18

0.76 (0.67-0.85) 0.00

cervix 3 [15]

5

9.18, 0.06

56

0.65 (0.53-0.80) 0.00

bladder 1 [14]

9

7.27, 0.51

0

0.91 (0.83-1.01) 0.08

bladder 2 [16]

6

2.25, 0.81

0

0.75 (0.60-0.96) 0.02

nsclc 1 [8]

17

28.98, 0.02

45

1.04 (0.96-1.12) 0.33

nsclc 2 [8]

7

3.63, 0.73

0

0.98 (0.83-1.14) 0.76

nsclc 3 [8]

25

22.32, 0.56

0

0.90 (0.83-0.97) 0.01

nsclc 4 [8]

11

39.63, 0.00

75

0.84 (0.74-0.95) 0.01

ovarian 1 [7]

19

21.92, 0.24

18

0.98 (0.91-1.06) 0.69

ovarian 2 [7]

11

12.83, 0.23

22

0.93 (0.83-1.05) 0.23

ovarian 3 [10]

9

14.78, 0.06

46

0.88 (0.79-0.98) 0.02

ovarian 4 [10]

9

10.35, 0.24

23

0.91 (0.80-1.05) 0.21

ovarian 5 [10]

12

2.57, 1.00

0

1.02 (0.93-1.12) 0.66

port [11]

9

13.06, 0.11

39

1.21 (1.08-1.34) 0.00

sarcoma [9]

14

11.80, 0.54

0

0.89 (0.76-1.03) 0.12

oeso [12]

6

10.37, 0.07

52

0.89 (0.78-1.01) 0.06

glioma [13]

12

13.29, 0.27

17

0.85 (0.78-0.92) 0.00