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Forest plot of comparisons between bodies of evidence from randomised controlled trials versus those from cohort studies for continuous outcomes as pooled difference of mean differences. CS=cohort study; RCT=randomised controlled trial; MD=mean difference; Rees 2013a=reference 57
