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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Epidemiol. 2018 Oct 17;106:41–49. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.10.007

Table 2.

Significant differences of treatments comparisons based on their 95% credible intervals.

Treatment comparisons with no direct evidence:
Network meta-analysis
Non-significant difference Significant difference
Direct evidencea Non-significant difference 326 158
Significant difference 0 0
Treatment comparisons with only one study contributing direct evidence:
Network meta-analysis
Non-significant difference Significant difference
Direct evidenceb Non-significant difference 84 16
Significant difference 25 56
Treatment comparisons with at least two studies contributing direct evidence:
Network meta-analysis
Non-significant difference Significant difference
Direct evidencec Non-significant difference 107 34
Significant difference 11 98
a

For treatment comparisons with no direct evidence, tde credible intervals provided by tde direct evidence are considered as (−∞,+∞), so all results are non-significant.

b

The single study is tde only source of tde direct evidence.

c

The pairwise meta-analysis provides tde direct evidence.