Table 2.

Results of Egger's meta-regression test assessing the absence of small-study effects.

Egger's test for small-study effects: Regress standard normal deviate of intervention effect estimate against its standard error
Number of studies = 19				Root MSE = 1.007
Std_Eff	Coef.	Std. err	t	p > |t|	(95% CI)
Slope	1.784973	0.5367409	3.33	0.004	0.6471331	2.922813
Bias	0.6247631	0.3954358	1.58	0.134	−0.2135234	1.46305

Note: Test of H0: no small-study effects, p=0.134.