“…Five studies 20,26,43,52,58 with significantly skewed estimated mean and standard deviation were excluded as this estimation method is not recommended. 29 Other exclusion reasons were dosing regimens other than 110-or 150-mg twice-daily dosing, 36,37,40,41,46,51,53,55 special population 42,48 When dabigatran concentrations were pooled based on the methods used to measure concentrations, the pooled dabigatran concentrations were higher in the LC-MS/MS group compared to the HTI assay. The results are reported in Table 6.…”