Quantitative assessment of inconsistency in meta-analysis using decision thresholds with two new indices.

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Tác giả: Luís Filipe Azevedo, Gianluca Baio, Antonio Bognanni, Sara Gil-Mata, Manuel Marques-Cruz, Simone Mordue, Ignacio Neumann, Clareece Nevill, Holger J Schünemann, Guido Schwarzer, Bernardo Sousa-Pinto, James Steele, Gavin Stewart, Rafael José Vieira, Paul Whaley

Ngôn ngữ: eng

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Thông tin xuất bản: United States : Journal of clinical epidemiology , 2025

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Bộ sưu tập: NCBI

ID: 127661

OBJECTIVE: In evidence synthesis, inconsistency is typically assessed visually and with the I STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We developed two measures to quantify inconsistency based on DTs - the Decision Inconsistency (DI) and the Across-Studies Inconsistency (ASI) indices. The DI and the ASI are based on the distribution of the posterior samples studies' effect sizes across interpretation categories defined by DTs. We developed these indices for the Bayesian context, followed by a frequentist extension. RESULTS: The DI informs on the overall inconsistency of effect sizes across interpretation categories, while the ASI quantifies how different studies are compared to each other (in relation to interpretation categories) based on absolute effects. A DI≥50% and an ASI≥25% are suggestive of important unexplained inconsistency. We provide an R package (metainc) and a web tool (https://metainc.med.up.pt/) to support the computation of the DI and ASI, including in the context of sensitivity analyses assessing the impact of potential uncertainty in inconsistency. CONCLUSION: The DI and the ASI can contribute to quantitatively assess inconsistency, particularly as DTs are gaining recognition in evidence synthesis and health decision-making.
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