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...oint of a meta-analysis. Someone suggested to me to add a "small" quantity (say 1, or 0.5, as in the case of Yate's correction for continuity) to the event counts in these groups, ant to see if the inclusion of these study would entail a modification of the results, but I'm "isntinctively" not satisfied with this approach. In my case, the meta-analysis exhibits an excess of some undesirable events in one of the treatment groups, while this excess does not reach the sacro-sanctus "statistical significance threshold" in any of the papers I analysed (physicians are...