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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2025

Risk of Bias in Network Meta-Analysis (RoB NMA) tool.

Carole Lunny, J P T Higgins, Ian R White, Sofia Dias, B Hutton, J M Wright, Areti-Angeliki Veroniki, P F Whiting, A C Tricco

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 14 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Carole LunnyPrecision, Vancouver, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7825-6765
J P T HigginsPopulation Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8323-2514
Ian R WhiteMRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6718-7661
Sofia DiasCentre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2172-0221
B HuttonOttawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5662-8647
J M WrightCochrane Hypertension Review Group, Therapeutics Initiative, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1136-8145
Areti-Angeliki VeronikiKnowledge Translation Programme, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6388-4825
P F WhitingBristol Technology Assessment Group, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1138-5682
A C TriccoKnowledge Translation Programme, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4114-8971

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID40101916
PMCPMC11915405

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