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Why do we need forest plots?
You’ve already gathered all the studies you could find about headaches, extracted the data, and used meta-analysis to find the overall average effect of the two drugs. But now you want to put that result into context. How do you quickly compare each study result with what you found when you combined the results?
That’s what a forest plot is for.