Defined term · Evidence assessment
Network meta-analysis
A synthesis combining direct and indirect comparisons across a connected set of interventions. The Institute publishes network estimates with its transitivity assessment attached and does not publish…
§1Network meta-analysis
§1.1Also known as
Mixed treatment comparison
§1.2Category
Evidence assessment — Terms describing how the Institute judges and reports the strength of evidence.
§1.3Related terms
- Transitivity — The assumption, required for indirect comparison, that participants in the contributing trials could in principle have been randomised to any of the compared…
- Indirect comparison — An estimate of the difference between two interventions that have not been compared directly, derived through their comparisons with a common comparator. Weaker than a…
Compound Evidence Institute · CEI-GT-025 · https://compoundevidence.com/glossary/network-meta-analysis/ · retrieved 30 July 2026