Network meta-analysis models to account for variability in treatment definitions: Application to dose effects

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-39

  Giovane, Cinzia Del ^a,b   Vacchi, Laura ^c   Mavridis, Dimitris ^a,d   Filippini, Graziella ^c   Salanti, Georgia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Consistency; Dose response; Monotonic; Multiple treatment meta analysis; Node

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BETA1A INTERFERON; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUORIDE; GLATIRAMER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERFERON BETA SERINE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MITOXANTRONE; NATALIZUMAB; PLACEBO; TOOTHPASTE;

ARTICLE; DENTAL CARIES; DOSE RESPONSE; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DENTAL CARIES; DRUG THERAPY; FLUORIDES; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 84870924535     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5512     Document Type: Article

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