{"title":"Prevalence of rare anatomic variants - publication bias due to selective reporting in meta-analyses studies.","authors":"Vasileios Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Filippou, Aliki Fiska","doi":"10.3897/folmed.66.e137881","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Meta-analyses of prevalence studies reporting rare anatomic variants are prone to selective reporting of non-null, confirmatory results, thus resulting in publication bias.</p>","PeriodicalId":12415,"journal":{"name":"Folia medica","volume":"66 6","pages":"795-817"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Folia medica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3897/folmed.66.e137881","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Dentistry","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Introduction: Meta-analyses of prevalence studies reporting rare anatomic variants are prone to selective reporting of non-null, confirmatory results, thus resulting in publication bias.