Twenty years of network meta‐analysis: Continuing controversies and recent developments

AE Ades, NJ Welton, S Dias… - Research Synthesis …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Network meta‐analysis (NMA) is an extension of pairwise meta‐analysis (PMA) which
combines evidence from trials on multiple treatments in connected networks. NMA delivers …

[HTML][HTML] Low awareness of the transitivity assumption in complex networks of interventions: a systematic survey from 721 network meta-analyses

LM Spineli, C Kalyvas, JJ Yepes-Nuñez… - BMC medicine, 2024 - Springer
Background The transitivity assumption is the cornerstone of network meta-analysis (NMA).
Violating transitivity compromises the credibility of the indirect estimates and, by extent, the …