Figure 1.
A flow chart showing the progress of trials through the review.
Table 1.
Characteristics and quality scores of the included studies.
Figure 2.
Meta-analysis of the relative risks (RR) of success rate between talc pleurodesis and control therapies using random-effects model.
Bars represent 95% confidence intervals (CI) of RR in patients receiving talc pleurodesis versus controls. The center of the lozenge gives the combined RR. RR was considered statistically significant if the 95% CI for the overall RR does not overlap one.
Table 2.
Comparision of success rate between talc pleurodesis and control therapies at 1 month and longer than 1 month.
Figure 3.
Funnel graph for the assessment of potential publication bias in talc pleurodesis compared with control therapies for malignant pleural effusion.
The funnel graph plots log of relative risk (RR) against the standard error of the log of RR. Each solid circle represents each study in the meta-analysis. The line in the center indicates the summary RR.
Table 3.
Subgroup analysis of success rates between talc pleurodesis and different control groups.