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From: Low awareness of the transitivity assumption in complex networks of interventions: a systematic survey from 721 network meta-analyses

Fig. 3

Bubble plot on the justifications considered to support the conclusions about transitivity (plausible, questionable, or difficult to judge) among systematic reviews published before and after the PRISMA-NMA statement: 128 systematic reviews before and 137 after PRISMA-NMA reported their conclusion about transitivity. A systematic review may have reported at least one justification (x-axis) to support its conclusion (y-axis). A Limited available data. B Justifying treatment similarity in different trials. C Justifying treatments as missing at random. D Justifying participants as jointly randomisable. E Comparison comparability regarding important effect modifiers. F Sensitivity analysis. G Subgroup analysis. H Meta-regression. I Consistency evaluation

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