The Impact of Excluding Trials from Network Meta-Analyses - An Empirical Study.

Network meta-analysis (NMA) expands the scope of a conventional pairwise meta-analysis to simultaneously compare multiple treatments, which has an inherent appeal for clinicians, patients, and policy decision makers. Two recent reports have shown that the impact of excluding a treatment on NMAs can...

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Main Authors: Jing Zhang, Yiping Yuan, Haitao Chu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5142775?pdf=render