Network meta-analysis: introduction and an example that compares devices for PFO closure

Affiliations

¹ Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Benkhadra.khalid@mayo.edu.
² Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
³ Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

Editorial

Khalid Benkhadra et al. Eur Heart J. 2015.

. 2015 Jan 7;36(2):80-2.

doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehu343. Epub 2014 Sep 24.

¹ Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Benkhadra.khalid@mayo.edu.
² Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
³ Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.

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Percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale in patients with cryptogenic embolism: a network meta-analysis.
Stortecky S, da Costa BR, Mattle HP, Carroll J, Hornung M, Sievert H, Trelle S, Windecker S, Meier B, Jüni P. Stortecky S, et al. Eur Heart J. 2015 Jan 7;36(2):120-8. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehu292. Epub 2014 Aug 11. Eur Heart J. 2015. PMID: 25112661 Review.