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  • Biostatistics
  • Medical Informatics
  • Evidence-Based Medicine

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  • Network meta-analysis (NMA) is increasingly utilized for comparing multiple treatments.
  • Existing NMA models often struggle with studies measuring outcomes at heterogeneous time points.
  • Statistical methodologies for NMA are advancing in both frequentist and Bayesian frameworks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a novel Bayesian B-spline model for simultaneous analysis of longitudinal outcomes.
  • To enable indirect treatment comparisons across diverse longitudinal studies.
  • To overcome limitations of existing NMA models in handling time-varying treatment effects.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a Bayesian model utilizing B-splines for longitudinal data analysis.
  • Simultaneous modeling of outcomes across multiple time points within a Bayesian framework.
  • Application to direct and indirect treatment comparisons in network meta-analysis.

Main Results:

  • The proposed B-spline model demonstrates flexibility in analyzing longitudinal treatment effects.
  • The approach successfully accommodates various temporal treatment effect patterns.
  • Demonstrated computational efficiency compared to P-spline and fractional polynomial models.

Conclusions:

  • The Bayesian B-spline model offers a computationally efficient and flexible solution for NMA of longitudinal studies.
  • It allows for robust direct and indirect comparisons of treatments with diverse longitudinal profiles.
  • This method enhances the ability to synthesize evidence from complex, time-varying clinical trial data.