Funding for this research was provided by:
medical research council (MC_UU_12023/24, MC_UU_12023/24)
Article History
Received: 14 July 2021
Accepted: 29 October 2021
First Online: 21 February 2022
Declarations
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: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form atand declare no support from any organisation with competing interests for the submitted work, no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous 3 years, and no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.LHMR and JFT are co-applicants on a Prostate Cancer UK (PCUK) grant to develop a topic-based repository of randomised controlled trials of treatments for metastatic prostate cancer. LAS was a co-applicant on a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) grant to pilot a topic based register of randomised controlled trials of progestogens for prevention of preterm birth. She has previously held grants to carry out several IPD meta-analyses. In addition, JFT & LS are convenors, and LHMR is the coordinator of the Cochrane IPD Meta-analysis Methods Group.No ethics approval, or consent for publication, was required.