Graphical methods and numerical summaries for presenting results from multiple-treatment meta-analysis: An overview and tutorial

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-171

  Salanti, Georgia ^a   Ades, A E ^b   Ioannidis, John P A ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian meta analysis; Mixed treatment comparison; Network meta analysis; Posterior probabilities; Predictive intervals; Ranking

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DIPYRIDAMOLE; PLACEBO; THIENOPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; META ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTIPLE TREATMENT META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOM SAMPLE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA DISPLAY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; STROKE;

EID: 78650509651     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.03.016     Document Type: Article

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