Is providing uncertainty intervals in treatment ranking helpful in a network meta-analysis?

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¹ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, 209 Victoria Street, East Building, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8, Canada. Electronic address: VeronikiA@smh.ca.
² Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, 209 Victoria Street, East Building, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, 27 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada.
³ Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Stefan-Meier-Strasse 26, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
⁴ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, 209 Victoria Street, East Building, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8, Canada; Epidemiology Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 6th Floor, 155 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M7, Canada.

Areti Angeliki Veroniki et al. J Clin Epidemiol. 2018 Aug.

. 2018 Aug:100:122-129.

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.02.009. Epub 2018 Feb 10.

¹ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, 209 Victoria Street, East Building, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8, Canada. Electronic address: VeronikiA@smh.ca.
² Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, 209 Victoria Street, East Building, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, 27 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada.
³ Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Stefan-Meier-Strasse 26, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
⁴ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, 209 Victoria Street, East Building, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8, Canada; Epidemiology Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 6th Floor, 155 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M7, Canada.

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Keywords: Multiple treatment meta-analysis; Network meta-analysis; Probability of being the best; Ranking; SUCRA; Treatment ranking uncertainty.

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