… However, we tried to ensure that the comparison of the summary treatment effects between
… major widely known recent trials that might offset the comparison of the magnitude of effects. …

… We describe comparisons of three or more treatments, based on pair-wise or multi-arm …
when the entire body of evidence could be summarised in terms of four relative treatment effects. …

… We identified six interventions for which there was evidence of a treatment effect (benefit
or harm) in systematic reviews of clinical trials and we carried out a systematic review of the …

… effects models that allow for variation in true treatment effects … is homogeneous across
treatment comparisons as well as … (unconstrained) baseline study effects with models with random …

… from systematic reviews, MTC methods should be used in overviews to provide a single
coherent analysis of all treatment comparisons and to check for evidence consistency. …

… For describing all possible treatment effects in a model, we need to … treatment effects
across the entire evidence ensemble, or where we need a prediction for a treatment comparison …

… In this analysis (12 meta-analyses including 60 trials) there was no evidence of an association
between blinding and intervention effect estimates (ratio of odds ratios 1.02 (0.92 to 1.14))…

… In fact, evidence-based surgery is widely based on evidence from NRSs and we need
appropriate methods for limiting confounding bias. PS analysis could be an interesting technique …

… The aim of this study was to examine the relative efficacy of evidence-based treatments (EBTs)
versus treatment-as-usual (TAU) in routine care for anxiety and depression in adults. …

… This study provides empirical evidence that inadequate methodological approaches in
controlled trials, particularly those representing poor allocation concealment, are associated with …