Abstract
How can policy makers decide which of five treatments is the best? Standard meta-analysis provides little help but evidence based decisions are possible
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- Year
- 2005
- Type
- review
- Volume
- 331
- Issue
- 7521
- Pages
- 897-900
- Citations
- 1560
- Access
- Closed
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Deborah M Caldwell,
A. E. Ades,
Julian P. T. Higgins
(2005).
Simultaneous comparison of multiple treatments: combining direct and indirect evidence.
BMJ
, 331
(7521)
, 897-900.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7521.897
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- DOI
- 10.1136/bmj.331.7521.897