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Cochrane Meta-analyses
Participant Characteristics
Cochrane v1 Cochrane v2 Cochrane v3 Cochrane v4
Rees et al (2004) Davies et al (2010) Sagar et al (2014) Long et al (2019)
Exercise capacity
VO2max 2.2 (2.8 to 1.5) Not reported 2.8 (2.1 to 3.5) MCID
Not reported ≥ -5
ml/kg/min ml/kg/min
HRQoL
MLwHF Not reported -10.3 (-4.8 to -15.9) -5.8 (-0.2 to -2.4) -7.1 (-10.5 to -3.7)
Not reported 0.63 (0.37 to 0.80) 0.46 (0.26 to 0.66) 0.60 (0.39 to 0.82)
All outcomes
Explaining outcome variation
Trial level characteristics
Explaining outcome variation
Patient characteristics
MLwHF
Meta-analysis Learnings?
Acknowledge my Cochrane review
& ExTraMATCH II co-authors and
contributors
rod.taylor@gla.ac.uk