Low awareness of the transitivity assumption in complex networks of interventions: a systematic survey from 721 network meta-analyses.
Loukia Maria SpineliChrysostomos KalyvasJuan Jose Yepes-NuñezAndrés Mauricio García-SierraDiana C Rivera-PinzónSvenja E SeideKaterina PapadimitropoulouPublished in: BMC medicine (2024)
Overall, there has been a slight improvement in reporting and evaluating transitivity since releasing PRISMA-NMA, particularly in items related to the systematic review report. Nevertheless, there has been limited attention to pre-planning the transitivity evaluation and low awareness of the conceptual evaluation methods that align with the nature of the assumption.