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Hello,
I have a problem and need your collective advice. I am a member of a systematic review workgroup and we are in the process of extracting data from the investigations that fulfilled our inclusion criteria and are running into issues where the results in tables
do not match the results in the text and where the results are reported without including previous failures.
The expert extractors (experts in the field under study, and one expert with extensive stats knowledge but no experience doing sys revs) have encountered either sloppy reporting or outright lies in the reporting of data. One of the expert extractors has been
recalculating results based on the stated methodology (it was reported but not followed by study).
Is this OK if we report our recalculation of outcomes and use those in meta-analysis and report the Bias?
Thanks!
Laurel
AAPD