The Effect of Teriparatide on Fracture Healing of Osteoporotic Patients: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Table 4

Sensitivity analyses based on various exclusion criteria for functional outcome.

Excluded trial	Number of trials	Number of patients	EG	CG	MD (95% CI)	value for MD	, %	value for heterogeneity
Aspenberg et al. 2010 [31]	3 [27, 28, 30]	134	49	85	−0.80 [−1.87, 0.27]	0.14	87	0.0005
Johansson 2016 [28]	3 [27, 30, 31]	186	91	95	−1.18 [−2.14, −0.22]	0.02	86	0.0008
Kanakaris et al. 2015 [27]	3 [28, 30, 31]	195	101	94	−1.32 [−2.06, −0.58]	0.0005	80	0.008
Peichl et al. 2011 [30]	3 [27, 28, 31]	160	89	71	−0.74 [−1.69, 0.21]	0.13	85	0.001

EG, experimental group; CG, control group.