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A Revised Framework to Evaluate the Consistency Assumption Globally in a Network of Interventions

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  • Loukia M. Spineli

    (Midwifery Research and Education Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany)

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Background The unrelated mean effects (UME) model has been proposed for evaluating the consistency assumption globally in the network of interventions. However, the UME model does not accommodate multiarm trials properly and omits comparisons between nonbaseline interventions in the multiarm trials not investigated in 2-arm trials. Methods We proposed a refinement of the UME model that tackles the limitations mentioned above. We also accompanied the scatterplots on the posterior mean deviance contributions of the trial arms under the network meta-analysis (NMA) and UME models with Bland-Altman plots to detect outlying trials contributing to poor model fit. We applied the refined and original UME models to 2 networks with multiarm trials. Results The original UME model omitted more than 20% of the observed comparisons in both networks. The thorough inspection of the individual data points’ deviance contribution using complementary plots in conjunction with the measures of model fit and the estimated between-trial variance indicated that the refined and original UME models revealed possible inconsistency in both examples. Conclusions The refined UME model allows proper accommodation of the multiarm trials and visualization of all observed evidence in complex networks of interventions. Furthermore, considering several complementary plots to investigate deviance helps draw informed conclusions on the possibility of global inconsistency in the network. Highlights We have refined the unrelated mean effects (UME) model to incorporate multiarm trials properly and to estimate all observed comparisons in complex networks of interventions. Forest plots with posterior summaries of all observed comparisons under the network meta-analysis and refined UME model can uncover the consequences of potential inconsistency in the network. Using complementary plots to investigate the individual data points’ deviance contribution in conjunction with model fit measures and estimated heterogeneity aid in detecting possible inconsistency.

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  • Loukia M. Spineli, 2022. "A Revised Framework to Evaluate the Consistency Assumption Globally in a Network of Interventions," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 42(5), pages 637-648, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:medema:v:42:y:2022:i:5:p:637-648
    DOI: 10.1177/0272989X211068005
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