Efficacy of osteoporosis therapies in a network meta-analysis with indirect comparisons: Many concerns for new tools of evidence synthesis?

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1927-1928

  Catala Lopez F ^a,b   Sanfelix Gimeno G ^b   Tobias A ^c   Hurtado, I ^b   Sanfelix Genoves J ^b   Peiro S ^b  

^a Department of Medicines for Veterinary Use   (Spain)

^b Fundacion para el Fomento de la Investigacion Sanitaria y Biomedica de la Comunitat Valenciana   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DENOSUMAB; PARATHYROID HORMONE[1-34]; RALOXIFENE; RISEDRONIC ACID; STRONTIUM RANELATE;

COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; HUMAN; LETTER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES;

EID: 84878789476     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: 14332965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-013-2294-9     Document Type: Letter

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