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Professor Paul Glasziou is Professor of Evidence-Based Practice at Bond University and the Director of the Institute for Evidence Based Healthcare.
The results of this review are not trustworthy, as it used the weak methods to find, select and combine studies; and their main conclusions are based mostly on non-randomized trials. The reviews methods of analysis give the same weight to the RECOVERY trial – with 4,686 patient randomized – and the Paccoud study – with 89 patients and no randomization.
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