Clinical outcomes of laryngopharyngeal reflux treatment: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

To investigate the therapeutic benefit of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) over placebo in patients with laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) and to analyze the epidemiological factors of heterogeneity in the literature.

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