The Kilim plot: A tool for visualizing network meta-analysis results for multiple outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Network meta-analysis (NMA) can be used to compare multiple competing treatments for the same disease. In practice, usually a range of outcomes is of interest. As the number of outcomes increases, summarizing results from multiple NMAs becomes a nontrivial task, especially for larger networks. Moreover, NMAs provide results in terms of relative effect measures that can be difficult to interpret and apply in every-day clinical practice, such as the odds ratios. In this article, we aim to facilitate the clinical decision-making process by proposing a new graphical tool, the Kilim plot, for presenting results from NMA on multiple outcomes. Our plot compactly summarizes results on all treatments and all outcomes; it provides information regarding the strength of the statistical evidence of tre

SUBMITTER: Seo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7818463 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature