Table 4. Odds ratios comparing the UK and Ireland with other regions based on the proportion of higher- compared with lower-quality evidence.

Comparison region	Higher-/lower-quality articles (n)	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval		p-value
			Lower	Higher
UK and Ireland	73/473
Compared with:
Europe	265/1241	0.723	0.546	0.956	0.022
North America	249/2526	1.566	1.185	2.069	0.003
Japan	25/410	2.531	1.577	4.062	< 0.001
Rest of the world	215/929	0.667	0.500	0.889	0.003