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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009;138:1255
© 2009 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Reply to the Editor

Hisato Takagi, MD, PhD, Takuya Umemoto, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka Medical Center, Shizuoka, Japan

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We appreciate the comments by Vedamurthy and associates1Go on our meta-analysis.2Go The standardized mean difference (SMD) is used as a summary statistic in meta-analyses when the studies all assess the same outcome but measure it in a variety of ways (eg, all studies measure depression, but they use different psychometric scales).3Go Vedamurthy and colleagues stated that there were some errors in the calculation of the summary estimate: the units . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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