Indirect comparisons and network meta-analyses: Estimation of effects in the absence of head-to-head trials-part 22 of a series on evaluation of scientific publications;Übersichtsarbeit: Indirekte Vergleiche und Netzwerk-Metaanalysen: Schätzung von Effekten bei fehlenden direkten Vergleichsstudien - Teil 22 der Serie zur Bewertung wissenschaftlicher Publikationen

Deutsches Arzteblatt International

Volumn 112, Issue 47, 2015, Pages 803-808

  Kiefer, Corinna ^a   Sturtz, Sibylle ^a   Bender, Ralf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN HEALTH CARE IQWIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; ALGORITHM; CHECKLIST; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; META ANALYSIS; NETWORK META-ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; NETWORK META-ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 84948129304     PISSN: 18660452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2015.0803     Document Type: Review

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