Ventresca, Matthew
Schünemann, Holger J.
Macbeth, Fergus
Clarke, Mike
Thabane, Lehana
Griffiths, Gareth
Noble, Simon
Garcia, David
Marcucci, Maura
Iorio, Alfonso
Zhou, Qi
Crowther, Mark
Akl, Elie A.
Lyman, Gary H.
Gloy, Viktoria
DiNisio, Marcello
Briel, Matthias
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Knowledge Synthesis Grant, KRS 126594)
Article History
Received: 27 September 2019
Accepted: 30 March 2020
First Online: 12 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
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: Dr. Clarke reports being co-convenor of the Cochrane Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis Methods Group and involved in several IPDMAs funded by a variety of research funders. Dr. Garcia reports grants and personal fees from Incyte, grants from Bayer, grants, personal fees and non-financial support from Janssen, personal fees and non-financial support from Seattle Genetics, grants from Daiichi Sankyo, outside the submitted work. Dr. Di Nisio reports personal fees from Bayer, personal fees from BMS-Pfizer, personal fees from Leo Pharma, personal fees from Aspen, personal fees from Daiichi Sankyo, outside the submitted work. Dr. Noble reports grants from Leo Pharma, personal fees from Bayer, personal fees from Daiichi Sankyo, outside the submitted work. The remaining authors declare that they have no competing interests.