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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2016 Jul;27(4):562–569. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000482

Table A2.

An example for treatment exclusion.

Study ID Treatment ID Full network (no. of events / no. of participants) Usable data
Remove Treatment 1 Remove Treatment 2 Remove Treatment 3

Arm-based Contrast-based Arm-based Contrast-based Arm-based Contrast-based
A 1 yA1/nA1 yA1/nA1 yA1/nA1 yA1/nA1
A 2 yA2/nA2 yA2/nA2 yA2/nA2 yA2/nA2
B 1 yB1/nB1 yB1/nB1 yB1/nB1 yB1/nB1
B 2 yB2/nB2 yB2/nB2 yB2/nB2 yB2/nB2
C 1 yC1/nC1 yC1/nC1 yC1/nC1 yC1/nC1
C 2 yC2/nC2 yC2/nC2 yC2/nC2 yC2/nC2
D 2 yD2/nD2 yD2/nD2 yD2/nD2 yD2/nD2
D 3 yD3/nD3 yD3/nD3 yD3/nD3 yD3/nD3
E 1 yE1/nE1 yC1/nC1 yC1/nC1 yC1/nC1
E 3 yE3/nE3 yE3/nE3 yE3/nE3 yE3/nE3
F 1 yF1/nF1 yF1/nF1 yF1/nF1 yF1/nF1 yF1/nF1
F 2 yF2/nF2 yF2/nF2 yF2/nF2 yF2/nF2 yF2/nF2
F 3 yF3/nF3 yF3/nF3 yF3/nF3 yF3/nF3 yF3/nF3