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ArticleEye (London, England)2022

A clinician's guide to network meta-analysis.

Mark R Phillips, David H Steel, Charles C Wykoff, Jason W Busse, Raveendhara R Bannuru, Lehana Thabane, Mohit Bhandari, Varun Chaudhary, Retina Evidence Trials InterNational Alliance (R.E.T.I.N.A.) Study Group

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Article in Eye (London, England), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Mark R PhillipsDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0923-261X
David H SteelSunderland Eye Infirmary, Sunderland, UK.
Charles C WykoffRetina Consultants of Texas (Retina Consultants of America), Houston, TX, USA.
Jason W BusseDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Raveendhara R BannuruCenter for Treatment Comparison and Integrative Analysis, Division of Rheumatology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8069-5783
Lehana ThabaneDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0355-9734
Mohit BhandariDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9608-4808
Varun ChaudharyDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. vchaudh@mcmaster.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-9988-4146
Retina Evidence Trials InterNational Alliance (R.E.T.I.N.A.) Study Group

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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HumansNetwork Meta-Analysis as Topic

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PMID35145277
PMCPMC9307840

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