Table 6.
Meta‐analyses affected by limiting eligibility to studies readily available to the authors in a full‐text electronic format through institutional holdings or publicly online (shortcut 3).
| Original SR‐MA | After shortcut | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Meta‐analysis | Obs/trials/studies | Summary estimate (95% CI) | Q | p | I 2 | Obs/trials/studies | Summary estimate (95% CI) | Q | p | I 2 |
| Greig et al., 2012 | 14. Final carcass wash (wash+) | 2200/5/1 | OR −0.206 (−0.339, −0.074) | 20.00 | <0.001 | 80.0% | Study excluded | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Greig et al., 2012 | 17. Dry age chill | 1119/3/2 | SMD −0.130 (−0.205, −0.055) | 1.43 | 0.488 | 0.0% | 80/1/1 | SMD −0.100a (−0.218, 0.018) | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Greig et al., 2012 | 18. Spray chill | 3421/6/4 | SMD −0.243 (−0.553, 0.067) | 60.69 | 0.000 | 93.4% | 340/3/2 | SMD −0.414 (−1.108, 0.280) | 46.07 | <0.001 | 95.7% |
Obs, observations; CI, confidence interval; OR, odd ratio; Q, Cochran's Q statistic; n/a, not applicable, SMD, standardized mean difference.
a
Effect estimate from a single trial, not a pooled estimate from meta‐analysis.