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Bile acids for viral hepatitis

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD003181.pub2Copy DOI
Database:
  1. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Version published:
  1. 17 October 2007see what's new
Type:
  1. Intervention
Stage:
  1. Review
Cochrane Editorial Group:
  1. Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group

Copyright:
  1. Copyright © 2009 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Authors

  • Wendong Chen

    Correspondence to: Departments of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, and Pharmacy, Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment Collaborative (THETA), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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  • Jian Ping Liu

    Centre for Evidence‐Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

  • Christian Gluud

    Cochrane Hepato‐Biliary Group, Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, Department 3344, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Contributions of authors

Wendong Chen drafted and revised the protocol and the review, co‐developed the search strategy, and performed handsearches and data extraction.
Jianping Liu developed the search stategy, extracted data, and revised the protocol and the review.
Christian Gluud formulated the idea for the review, evaluated the data extraction, and revised the protocol and the reveiw.

Sources of support

Internal sources

  • Copenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, Rigshospitalet, Denmark.

External sources

  • The Danish Medical Research Council's Grant on Getting Research into Practice (GRIP), Denmark.

Declarations of interest

None known.

Acknowledgements

The main acknowledgement is to the patients with hepatitis who took part in the clinical trials reviewed and to the researchers who conducted the trials. Special thanks to Li Lin who helped us retrieve original Chinese publications as well as searching The Chinese Biomedical Database. We also want to express our thanks to Ronald L Koretz, Rob Myers (Contact Editor for this review), and the other peer reviewers for their valuable comments.

Version history

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2007 Oct 17

Bile acids for viral hepatitis

Review

Wendong Chen, Jian Ping Liu, Christian Gluud

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD003181.pub2

2002 Apr 22

Bile acids for viral hepatitis

Review

Wendong Chen, Jianping Liu, Christian Gluud

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD003181

Notes

According to the advice from the latest workshop on how to edit systematic reviews, we performed the following change in this review.

We used both a random‐effects (DerSimonian 1986) and fixed effect‐model (DeMets 1987) in the meta‐analysis. We reported the results of the fixed‐effect model if there was no difference in the results of the two models. Otherwise, we would have reported the results produced by both models.