A meta-analysis of exercise interventions among people treated for cancer

Abstract

In the article "A Meta-Analysis of Exercise Interventions among People Treated for Cancer," incorrect quality of life results were reported due to a coding error of baseline values for one primary study. The error affected quality of life outcome data for the treatment group baseline versus post intervention comparison and for the control group baseline versus outcome comparison. The corrected data appear in the tables below. One article sentence should be corrected (p. 705): The original sentence was "All ESs are small and statistically nonsignificant, except for quality of life at −0.26 under the assumption of no pre-and postscore association"; it should read "All ESs are small and statistically nonsignificant." The authors apologize for the error. Tables 4 and 5

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