Table 2. Publication bias analysis.
Statistical test | Efficacy outcome | Safety outcome | |||||||||||
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DOCE | All-cause death | Cardiac death | Ischemia driven TVR | Stent thrombosis | Target vessel MI | ||||||||
Eggers linear regression test | |||||||||||||
Intercept | 0.09 | P=0.89 | −0.08 | P=0.92 | −0.18 | P=0.75 | 0.09 | P=0.87 | −0.32 | P=0.56 | 0.42 | P=0.38 | |
t | 0.14 | −0.11 | −0.33 | 0.17 | −0.63 | 0.96 | |||||||
Begg and Mazumdar’s rank correlation test | |||||||||||||
Z value for Kendall’s tau | 1.05 | P=0.29 | −0.15 | P=0.88 | −0.15 | P=0.88 | 0.45 | P=0.65 | −0.45 | P=0.65 | 0.45 | P=0.65 | |
Trim and fill test | |||||||||||||
OR estimated | 1.07 | P=0.56 | 1 | P=0.99 | 0.86 | P=0.54 | 1.32 | P=0.04 | 2.94 | P>0.0001 | 1.58 | P=0.001 | |
No. trimmed studies | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
DOCE, device oriented major adverse cardiac events.