After applying your inclusion/exclusion criteria you have results for over 100 studies. Which of the following strategies (select all that apply) will help you organise the
Information about the studies and present the results most clearly?
A) Include a simple table giving brief descriptions of each study in one table row (probably as an online appendix given the very large number of studies)
B) Include key elements for each study including the study design, sample size, exposure measure, effect size and confounder control
C) Order the studies by study type (cohort or RCT) and sample size, largest first
D) Provide a forest plot in which you use the highest RR you can find in each paper to maximise the visual impact
E) Conduct a meta‐analysis to give a simple summary effect estimate no matter what the pattern of the data is
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