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ArticleClinical kidney journal2022

The misuse of funnel plots in meta-analyses of proportions: are they really useful?

Huzaifa Ahmad Cheema, Abia Shahid, Muhammad Ehsan, Muhammad Ayyan

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Article in Clinical kidney journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 15 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Huzaifa Ahmad CheemaDepartment of Internal Medicine, King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6783-7137
Abia ShahidDepartment of Internal Medicine, King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7627-1016
Muhammad EhsanDepartment of Internal Medicine, King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan.
Muhammad AyyanDepartment of Internal Medicine, King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID35664274
PMCPMC9155222

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