Common pitfalls and mistakes in the set-up, analysis and interpretation of results in network meta-analysis: What clinicians should look for in a published article

Evidence-Based Mental Health

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 88-94

  Chaimani, Anna ^a   Salanti, Georgia ^a,b   Leucht, Stefan ^c   Geddes, John R ^d   Cipriani, Andrea ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d WARNEFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NETWORK META-ANALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NETWORK META-ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 85026681356     PISSN: 13620347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/eb-2017-102753     Document Type: Article

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