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From the Divisions of Cardiology (Cantor) and Critical Care Medicine (Brunet), St. Michael's Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Health Sciences Library, St. Michael's Hospital (Ziegler); the Department of Research Design and Biostatistics, Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences (Kiss); and the Prehospital and Transport Medicine Research Program, Department of Emergency Services, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Science Centre, and the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences (Morrison), Toronto, Ont.



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  		Fig. 1: Literature-search flow chart. DSR = Database for Systematic Reviews, CRCT = Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, AHA = American Heart Association, PCI = percutaneous coronary intervention.

 

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  		Fig. 2: Forest plot of odds ratios for death within 12 months (6 months, in the SIAM-3 trial). This plot shows a fixed-model analysis; similar numbers from a random-model analysis are included in an online version of Fig. 2 (available at www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/173/12/1473/DC3).

 


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  		Fig. 3: Forest plot of odds ratios for combined death and myocardial reinfarction within 12 months (6 months, in the SIAM-3 trial). This plot shows a fixed-model analysis; similar numbers from a random-model analysis are included in an online version of Fig. 3 (available at www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/173/12/1473/DC3).