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. 2016 Jun 10;7(4):433–446. doi: 10.1002/jrsm.1215

Table 7.

Meta‐analyses affected by relevance screening performed by a single reviewer (shortcut 4 — reviewer A).

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 3. Final carcass wash 838/10/4 OR 0.563 (0.414, 0.766) 8.42 0.493 0.0% 538/9/3 OR 0.747 (0.497, 1.123) 4.12 0.846 0.0%
Wilhelm et al., 2011 3. HACCP on Salmonella spp. Prevalence — beef 7843/(n/a)/5 OR 0.887 (0.530, 1.485) 3.39 0.496 0.0% 7532/(n/a)/4 OR 0.953 (0.565, 1.608) 0.98 0.805 0.0%
Wilhelm et al., 2011 4. HACCP on Salmonella spp. Prevalence — pork 11540/(n/a)/3 OR 0.776 (0.535, 1.123) 10.45 0.005 80.9% 10789/(n/a)/2 OR 0.913 (0.658, 1.266) 3.73 0.053 73.2%
Wilhelm et al., 2011 5. HACCP on Salmonella spp. Prevalence — poultry 18938/(n/a)/3 OR 0.392 (0.173, 0.886) 76.34 <0.001 97.4% 18237/(n/a)/2 OR 0.564 (0.262, 1.212) 33.63 <0.001 97.0%

Obs, observations; CI, confidence interval; OR, odd ratio; Q, Cochran's Q statistic; n/a, not applicable, SMD, standardized mean difference.