9. On study mortality for all cancer patients.

Model	ESA versus control HR (95% CI)	P value*	I²	P value**
Two‐stage log‐rank fixed effect model	1.10 (95% CI 0.98‐1.24)	0.1212	0%	0.7152
Two‐stage log‐rank random effects model	1.10 (95% CI 0.98‐1.24)	0.1212	0%	0.7152
Two‐stage Cox fixed effect model	1.09 (95% CI 0.97‐1.23)	0.1555	0%	0.8813
Two‐stage Cox random effects model	1.09 (95% CI 0.97‐1.23)	0.1555	0%	0.8813
Cox model stratified by study	1.10 (95% CI 0.98‐1.24)	0.121		0.4643

*LR test, ** for test of heterogeneity