Figure 17.

CBZ: carbamazepine; CI: confidence interval; GBP: gabapentin; LEV: levetiracetam; LTG: lamotrigine; OXC: oxcarbazepine; PHB: phenobarbitone; PHT: phenytoin; TPM: topiramate; VPS: sodium valproate; ZNS: zonisamide

Consistency: direct, indirect and network estimates for individuals with generalised seizures compared to sodium valproate (VPS) for time to six‐month remission and time to first seizure.

Note: direct evidence comes from studies that compared the drugs (head‐to‐head comparisons), indirect evidence comes from studies that did not compare the drugs (indirect comparisons) and network evidence comes from the whole network (head‐to‐head and indirect comparisons for all drugs).

Generalised tonic‐clonic seizures with or without other seizure types is shortened to 'Generalised seizures' for brevity.

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