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ReviewKnee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA2023

A guide to appropriately planning and conducting meta-analyses: part 3. Special considerations-the network meta-analysis.

Kyle N Kunze, Jeffrey Kay, Ayoosh Pareek, Jari Dahmen, Jorge Chahla, Shane J Nho, Riley J Williams, Darren de Sa, Jon Karlsson

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Review in Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Kyle N KunzeDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 East 70Th Street, New York, NY, 10021, USA. kylekunze7@gmail.comm.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0363-3482
Jeffrey KayDivision of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Ayoosh PareekDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 East 70Th Street, New York, NY, 10021, USA.
Jari DahmenDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jorge ChahlaDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
Shane J NhoDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
Riley J WilliamsDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 East 70Th Street, New York, NY, 10021, USA.
Darren de SaDivision of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Jon KarlssonDepartment of Orthopaedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The meta-analysis has become one of the predominant studies designs in orthopaedic literature. Within recent years, the network meta-analysis has been implicated as a powerful approach to comparing multiple treatments for an outcome of interest when conducting a meta-analysis (as opposed to two competing treatments which is typical of a traditional meta-analysis). With the increasing use of the network meta-analysis, it is imperative for readers to possess the ability to independently and critically evaluate these types of studies. The purpose of this article is to provide the necessary foundation of knowledge to both properly conduct and interpret the results of a network meta-analysis.

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