GRADE approach to rate the certainty from a network meta-analysis: addressing incoherence

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 108, Issue , 2019, Pages 77-85

  Brignardello Petersen, Romina ^a   Mustafa, Reem A ^a,b   Siemieniuk, Reed A C ^a   Murad, M Hassan ^c   Agoritsas, Thomas ^a,d   Izcovich, Ariel ^e   Schünemann, Holger J ^a   Guyatt, Gordon H ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^e HOSPITAL ALEMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Certainty in the evidence; GRADE; Incoherence; Inconsistency; Network meta analysis; Quality of the evidence; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; NETWORK META-ANALYSIS; PUBLISHING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GRADE APPROACH; HUMANS; NETWORK META-ANALYSIS; PUBLICATION BIAS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85059584196     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.11.025     Document Type: Article

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