Visualizing inconsistency in network meta-analysis by independent path decomposition

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Krahn, Ulrike ^a,b   Binder, Harald ^b   König, Jochem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forest plot; Inconsistency; Influence diagnostics; Mixed treatment comparison meta analysis; Multiple treatments comparison meta analysis; Network meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84923915279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-14-131     Document Type: Article

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