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. 2017 Aug;9(Suppl 9):S887–S897. doi: 10.21037/jtd.2017.06.59

Table 2. Publication bias analysis.

Statistical test Efficacy outcome Safety outcome
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.