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Systematic Analysis of Publication Bias in Neurosurgery Meta-Analyses

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NEUROSURGERY
卷 90, 期 3, 页码 262-269

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LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000001788

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Meta-analysis; Neurosurgery; Publication bias; Systematic review

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A systematic search for meta-analyses from the top neurosurgery journals found that although more than half of the articles assessed for publication bias, nearly half did not assess for it or did not make adjustments even when bias was present. This suggests that publication bias remains largely unaccounted for in neurosurgical meta-analyses.
BACKGROUND: Statistically significant positive results are more likely to be published than negative or insignificant outcomes. This phenomenon, also termed publication bias, can skew the interpretation of meta-analyses. The widespread presence of publication bias in the biomedical literature has led to the development of various statistical approaches, such as the visual inspection of funnel plots, Begg test, and Egger test, to assess and account for it. OBJECTIVE: To determine how well publication bias is assessed for in meta-analyses of the neurosurgical literature. METHODS: A systematic search for meta-analyses from the top neurosurgery journals was conducted. Data relevant to the presence, assessment, and adjustments for publication bias were extracted. RESULTS: The search yielded 190 articles. Most of the articles (n = 108, 56.8%) were assessed for publication bias, of which 40 (37.0%) found evidence for publication bias whereas 61 (56.5%) did not. In the former case, only 11 (27.5%) made corrections for the bias using the trim-and-fill method, whereas 29 (72.5%) made no correction. Thus, 111 meta-analyses (58.4%) either did not assess for publication bias or, if assessed to be present, did not adjust for it. CONCLUSION: Taken together, these results indicate that publication bias remains largely unaccounted for in neurosurgical meta-analyses.

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