Rapid methods including network meta-analysis to produce evidence in clinical decision support: a decision analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Conducting systematic reviews is time-consuming but crucial to construct evidence-based patient decision aids, clinical practice guidelines and decision analyses. New methods might enable developers to produce a knowledge base more rapidly. However, trading off scientific rigour for speed when creating a knowledge base is controversial, and the consequences are insufficiently known. We developed and applied faster methods including systematic reviews and network meta-analyses, assessed their feasibility and compared them to a gold standard approach. We also assessed the feasibility of using decision analysis to perform this comparison.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Eiring O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6195718 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature