• 82 studies, published 31 meta-analyses • 84% of those analyses combined 20 or fewer studies – 58% had 10 or fewer • The most studies in any one meta-analysis was 24 https://academic.oup.com/annonc/article/25/10/1901/2801213
Sherrington et al (2019). Exercise for preventing falls in older people living in the community. https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD012424.pub2/full 8 studies with fewer than 2,700 people
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