Data visualisation approaches for component network meta-analysis: visualising the data structure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health and social care interventions are often complex and can be decomposed into multiple components. Multicomponent interventions are often evaluated in randomised controlled trials. Across trials, interventions often have components in common which are given alongside other components which differ across trials. Multicomponent interventions can be synthesised using component NMA (CNMA). CNMA is limited by the structure of the available evidence, but it is not always straightforward to visualise such complex evidence networks. The aim of this paper is to develop tools to visualise the structure of complex evidence networks to support CNMA.

Methods

We performed a citation review of two key CNMA methods papers to identify existing published CNMA analyses and revie

SUBMITTER: Freeman SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10502971 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature