An overview of conducting systematic reviews with network meta-analysis
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An overview of conducting systematic reviews with network meta-analysis
Introduction Systematic reviews with network meta-analysis (NMA) are published with increasing frequency in the health care literature. Prior to 2008, very few systematic reviews contained a NMA [1]; however, there has been a marked increase, to mid-2012 Lee recorded 201 published networks [2]. The statistical method has been available since 2002 [3,4] and owes its origins to much earlier work ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Systematic Reviews
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2046-4053
DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-3-109