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There is no doubt that development of the project protocol, managing a large‐scale collaboration and carefully collecting, processing and checking data is a lengthy and resource‐intensive phase of an IPD meta‐analysis project. However, these aspects are key to ensuring that the approach is scientifically rigorous and truly collaborative, and that the privacy of the participants in the included trials is maintained. Importantly, it also ensures that the collated IPD is as accurate, up to date, reliable and comprehensive as it can be, and that it is well understood by the central research team. In all, this provides a necessary solid foundation for the statistical analysis part of the IPD project that follows.