NICE DSU Technical Support Document 2: A Generalised Linear Modelling Framework for Pairwise and Network Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials

By S. Dias, N. Welton, A. Sutton, A. Ades. 2011

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1. G. van Valkenhoef
2. S. Dias
3. Ian R. White
4. N. Welton
5. A. Ades
6. A. Sutton
7. Guobing Lu
8. Murray B. Stein

Citations in the corpus

• Social Anxiety Disorder (2008, methodology): “NMA is a generalisation of standard pairwise meta-analysis for A versus B trials, to data structures that include, for example, A versus B, B versus C, and A versus C trials (Dias et al., 2011; Lu & Ades, 2004).”
• NICE DSU Technical Support Document 18: Methods for population-adjusted indirect comparisons in submissions to NICE (2016, background): “absolute effects for all u in T via equation (14).”
• Automating network meta‐analysis (2012, methodology): “Continuous outcomes are often reported as relative effects compared with a control treatment, in which case the relative effects are correlated, and these correlations have to be modeled in the likelihood function for multi-arm trials (Dias et al ., 2011).”
• Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making 2 (2013, methodology): “One option is to formulate priors based on clinical opinion or on other metaanalyses with similar outcomes.(17,25) However, it may be preferable to use informative priors, perhaps tailored to particular outcomes and disease areas, based on studies of many hundreds of metaanalyses,(58) and this is cu”
• Effect of exercise for depression: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (2024, methodology): “Using National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines, 42 we standardised change scores for different depression scales (eg, Beck depression inventory, Hamilton depression rating scale) using an internal reference standard for each scale (for each scale, the average of pooled standard…”