For brevity, all the following results will be reported pooling all countries together.19.
A meta-analysis reported pooled positive and negative predictive values of 70 and 85%, respectively, for 11C- and 18F-CH PET/CT performed at biochemical recurrence after RP [10].
They reported pooled results including few smokers.
We reported pooled values with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI).
Most (14/19, 73.7%) reported statistically pooled results from RCTs, and 89.5% (17/19) reported pooled results from either RCTs or CTs.
We reported pooled data only when heterogeneity was not significant (P>0.05).
Our review showed that only 13 (8.6%) methodology and 21 (14.9%) application papers reported pooling procedures in their studies.
A recently reported pooled-analysis including forty-one phase II/III studies with 3479 patients also failed to provide significant survival benefit of CCT for LA-NSCLC.
Five meta-analyses have previously assessed IGRA sensitivity and specificity in children but reported pooled estimates largely differ (Table 1) [ 1, 5, 9- 11].
A recent meta-analysis of six studies reported pooled risk of diabetes to be 1.21 (95% CI: 1.07, 1.38) in never-smokers.
