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Third, except for studies with a TCA as the comparator, the number of studies included for each comparison was small.
For each meta-analysis of primary outcomes, we recorded the experimental intervention, the comparator, the number of RCTs examined, the number of participants, and the relative effect (treatment effect measure and combined estimate [95% confidence interval]).
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However the lack of genuine comparators hampered the number of samples that could be tested, only 35.2%.
On the one hand, dividing studies by type of presenting episode, by duration, and by comparator, meant limiting the number of patients in each group available for analysis.
We were unable to use an active comparator cohort because the number of patients starting weight reduction drugs other than orlistat was too small.
Although the studies we used in our analysis included several different NSAID comparators, the total number of events occurring for each individual NSAID was small.
For the comparison of all celecoxib doses with all comparators except rofecoxib, the number of events was 39/20,933 (0.19%) for celecoxib and 18/15,383 (0.12%) for comparators.
For each meta-analysis, we recorded the experimental intervention, the comparator, the outcome and the number of split-mouth and parallel-arm RCTs.
RA patients appropriate for clinical trials are increasingly difficult to recruit, and the switch to active comparator study designs has increased the number of patients and the observation time required to discriminate reliably the differences in change between treatment arms.
The folding ADC greatly reduces the number of comparators and the power consumption of the chip.
Size of the sorting network, the number of comparators needed, to sort N numbers is: S = N ⋅ log 2 N ⋅ log 2 N + 1.
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