Methodological considerations in meta-analysis: evaluating RCTs, NRS, and crossover trials for electrical impedance tomography in PEEP titration

Affiliations

• ¹ Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ² Department of Critical Care Medicine, Bhumibol Adulyadej Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.
• ³ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁴ Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. karen.burns@unityhealth.to.
• ⁵ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. karen.burns@unityhealth.to.
• ⁶ Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. haibo.zhang@unityhealth.to.
• ⁷ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. haibo.zhang@unityhealth.to.
• ⁸ Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. haibo.zhang@unityhealth.to.
• ⁹ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. haibo.zhang@unityhealth.to.