In an ideal world, a single randomized controlled trial (RCT) would be used to compare and evaluate the individual treatment effects for all possible treatments of interest. Of course, this... read more →
A standard pairwise meta-analysis can compare the efficacy or safety of exactly two treatments that have been directly compared in head-to-head clinical trials. However, in practice, there are often... read more →
In the context of network meta-analysis, indirect treatment comparison is used to describe the analysis of networks that do not contain any loops What is network meta-analysis? To begin with,... read more →
In this post we examine the statistical software available for conducting Bayesian network meta-analyses (NMA). The first two sections provide some background information and a review of the available... read more →
Most network meta-analyses will consist of six key stages - developing the protocol, performing the systematic review, conducting the feasibility assessment, preparing the statistical analysis plan, running the analyses and... read more →