Errors in a Meta-analysis of Treatments for Helicobacter pylori Infection

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Letters4 November 2008Errors in a Meta-analysis of Treatments for Helicobacter pylori InfectionNadim S. Jafri, MD and Colin W. Howden, MDNadim S. Jafri, MDFrom Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611.Search for more papers by this author and Colin W. Howden, MDFrom Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-149-9-200811040-00015 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail IN RESPONSE:We thank Dr. Gatta and colleagues for their comments. Our rationale for including the trial that had used a regimen of ranitidinebismuthcitrate (1) is given in our article. However, a sensitivity analysis had excluded that trial by examining only studies that had compared 10 days of sequential treatment with 7 days of triple therapy (Table 3). Inclusion or exclusion of that trial did not substantially alter our results.Regarding the issue of clarithromycin-resistant strains in the study by De Francesco and colleagues (2), Gatta and colleagues are correct. We regret our error in the transcription of these data. ...