Terms for finding, appraising and pooling research evidence, including systematic review and network meta-analysis.
Individual patient data meta-analysis systematically obtains, checks, and jointly synthesises participant-level records from eligible studies to estimate effects and investigate variation across studies or patients.
A systematic review continually updated as new relevant evidence becomes available, rather than conducted once and left static.
A method comparing treatments from separate trials with different populations by reweighting one trial's patient data to match the other trial's reported characteristics.
Meta-analysis statistically combines effect estimates from multiple studies addressing a sufficiently similar question.
An evidence synthesis summarising findings from multiple studies primarily through descriptive text, rather than formal statistical pooling.
Network meta-analysis, or NMA, compares three or more interventions by combining direct evidence from head-to-head studies with indirect evidence connected through common comparators.
A technique testing for inconsistency in a network meta-analysis by separately estimating direct and indirect evidence for one comparison and comparing them.
A meta-analysis combining evidence comparing exactly two treatments, unlike a network meta-analysis synthesising evidence across three or more.