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  • Biostatistics
  • Statistical Modeling
  • Evidence Synthesis

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  • Network meta-analysis synthesizes evidence from multiple treatments.
  • Inconsistency between direct and indirect evidence is a key validity concern.
  • Complex design-by-treatment interaction models address this inconsistency.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate the evaluation of design-by-treatment interaction models.
  • Utilize generalized linear mixed models for this evaluation.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed an arm-based approach for evaluating design-by-treatment inconsistency.
  • Applied the approach to smoking cessation data.
  • Compared arm-based with standard contrast-based methods.

Main Results:

  • Contrast-based approaches may introduce bias in treatment effect and inconsistency evaluation, particularly with low event rates.
  • The arm-based model provided more accurate results for design inconsistency when estimating different heterogeneity variances.

Conclusions:

  • Statistical software's ability to detect collinearity aids in parameter placement for inconsistency.
  • This technique is beneficial for complex network meta-analyses with numerous designs and treatments.