META-ANALYSES: WHAT THEY CAN AND CANNOT DO

Meta-analyses: what they can and cannot do

Meta-analyses overcome the limitation of small sample sizes or rare outcomes by pooling results from a number of individual studies to generate a single best estimate.As long as a meta-analysis is not limited by poor quality of included trials, unexplainable heterogeneity and/or reporting bias of individual trials, meta-analyses can be instrumental

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Polyphenol-based hydrogels: Pyramid evolution from crosslinked structures to biomedical applications and the reverse design

As a kind of nature-derived bioactive materials, polyphenol-based hydrogels possess many unique and outstanding properties such as adhesion, toughness, and self-healing due to their specific crosslinking structures, which have been widely used in biomedical fields including wound healing, antitumor, Sundials treatment of motor system injury, digest

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