CINeMA: Software for semiautomated assessment of the confidence in the results of network meta-analysis

Campbell Systematic Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2020, Pages

  Papakonstantinou, Theodoros ^a   Nikolakopoulou, Adriani ^a   Higgins, Julian P T ^b   Egger, Matthias ^a   Salanti, Georgia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85081998273     PISSN: 18911803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cl2.1080     Document Type: Article

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