Identifying null meta-analyses that are ripe for updating

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Nicholas J Barrowman
Manchun Fang
Margaret Sampson
David Moher
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[1] Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute,Chalmers Research Group
[2] University of Ottawa,Department of Pediatrics
[3] Carleton University,School of Mathematics & Statistics
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Receiver Operator Characteristic Curve; Pool Estimate; Additional Participant; Intravenous Streptokinase; Simulation Configuration;
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10.1186/1471-2288-3-13
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