Clinical evidence synthesis and network meta-analysis with indirect-treatment comparisons;Síntesis de la evidencia clínica y metaanálisis en red con comparaciones indirectas

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 182-187

  Catalá López, Ferrán ^a,b,c   Tobías, Aurelio ^d  

^a Centro Superior de Investigacion en Salud Publica CSISP   (Spain)

^b Fundacion Instituto de Investigacion en Servicios de Salud   (Spain)

^c División de Farmacoepidemiología y Farmacovigilancia Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios AEMPS   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC);

EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873410512     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2012.09.013     Document Type: Article

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