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In any case, the decision rule needs to be specified in the meta-analysis protocol before reviewing results in the papers so that selection cannot be influenced by the results.
Acute pain has been studied in single dose designs first proposed by Beecher and colleagues [ 1 2 ] and formalized by Houde and Wallenstein [ 3 ] . The problem with single trials is that while they can demonstrate statistical superiority of analgesic over placebo, variation because of random chance means that, if small, they provide a poor estimate of the size of the analgesic effect [ 4 ] . Combining results from clinically homogeneous trials in a meta-analysis gives an accurate estimate of the extent of the analgesic effect when sufficient numbers of patients have been randomized [ 4 5 ] .
To address this question we undertook a meta-analysis of all randomized clinical trials that compared at least one of the newer PPI with either ranitidine or placebo.
A meta-analysis of homeopathic clinical trials (on which WJ was the corresponding author) evaluated some specific quality parameters of 89 placebo-controlled trials of homeopathy using commonly used methods for addressing conventional medical studies.
These test statistics are combined in a meta-analysis, which weights the statistic from each hospital according to the reciprocal of the variance, a quantity that depends on sample size and the change in availability.