Overview of different indirect comparison approaches and methods
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We specifically address the following points:
- Reasons for IC
- The classical Bucher approach vs matching adjusted indirect comparisons (MAIC)
- How to incorporated meta-analyses
- Different network-meta-analyses approaches (NMA): Bayes vs Frequentist
- systematic literature reviews (SLR)
- Cochrane handbook
- Tools
- Visualizations
- Bias
- Precision vs bias
- Pre-specified vs post-hoc
- Secondary vs primary endpoints
- Power of IC
- Publish detailed analyses
Further references:
PRISMA http://prisma-statement.org/PRISMAStatement/
Earlier podcast episode:
Network meta-analyses: why, what, and how
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