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SUBMITTER: Zhang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4496319 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Jing J Fu Haoda H Carlin Bradley P BP
Statistics in medicine 20150408 19
Network meta-analysis (NMA) expands the scope of a conventional pairwise meta-analysis to simultaneously handle multiple treatment comparisons. However, some trials may appear to deviate markedly from the others and thus be inappropriate to be synthesized in the NMA. In addition, the inclusion of these trials in evidence synthesis may lead to bias in estimation. We call such trials trial-level outliers. To the best of our knowledge, while heterogeneity and inconsistency in NMA have been extensiv ...[more]