Analysis of the systematic reviews process in reports of network meta-analyses: methodological systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine whether network meta-analyses, increasingly used to assess comparative effectiveness of healthcare interventions, follow the key methodological recommendations for reporting and conduct of systematic reviews.

Design

Methodological systematic review of reports of network meta-analyses.

Data sources

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Medline, and Embase, searched from inception to 12 July 2012.

Review methods

All network meta-analyses comparing clinical efficacy of three or more interventions based on randomised controlled trials, excluding meta-analyses with an open loop network of three interventions. We assessed the reporting of general characteristics and key methodological components of

SUBMITTER: Bafeta A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3697418 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature