Network meta-analysis results against a fictional treatment of average performance: Treatment effects and ranking metric.
Adriani NikolakopoulouDimitris MavridisVirginia ChiocchiaTheodoros PapakonstantinouToshi A FurukawaGeorgia SalantiPublished in: Research synthesis methods (2020)
A forest plot with NMA relative treatment effects using "deviation from means" coding could complement presentation of NMA results in large networks and in absence of an obvious reference treatment. PreTA is a viable alternative to existing probabilistic ranking metrics that naturally incorporates uncertainty.