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What is a multiple treatments meta-analysis?
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Standard meta-analyses are an effective tool in evidence-based medicine, but one of their main drawbacks is that they can compare only two alternative treatments at a time. Moreover, if no trials exist which directly compare two interventions, it is not possible to estimate their relative efficacy. Multiple treatments meta-analyses use a meta-analytical technique that allows the incorporation of evidence from both direct and indirect comparisons from a network of trials of different intervent...
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- 10.1017/s2045796011000837
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- Journal:
- Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 151-153
- Publication date:
- 2012-06-01
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2045-7979
- ISSN:
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2045-7960
- Source identifiers:
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426049
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- English
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