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Fig. 3

From: Influence of blinding on treatment effect size estimate in randomized controlled trials of oral health interventions

Fig. 3

Difference in treatment ES estimate between trials with presence and lack of assessor blinding. A positive value (more than zero) across meta-analyses indicates that lack of assessor blinding inflates the treatment ES estimate when compared with trials with adequate assessor blinding. Diamond, difference in treatment ES estimate between trial components across all meta-analyses; square, proportional to weight used in meta-meta-analysis; horizontal arrow/line, a 95% confidence interval; solid vertical line, line of no difference in treatment ES estimate

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