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European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on March 20, 2008
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn109
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Network meta-analysis of antiplatet treatments for secondary stroke prevention

Ralf W. Baumgartner*

Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Frauenklinikstr 26, CH-8091 Zürich, Switzerland

* Corresponding author. Tel: + 41 44 255 5686, Fax: + 41 44 255 8864, Email: ralf.baumgartner@usz.ch

This editorial refers to ‘Network meta-analysis: simultaneous meta-analysis of common antiplatelet regimens after transient ischaemic attack or stroke’ by V. Thijs et al. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn106

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Network meta-analysis is a fairly new method for assessing the relative effectiveness of two treatments when they have not been directly evaluated in a controlled randomized trial (CRT) but have each been compared with other treatments.1 It allows an estimation of the heterogeneous effect of any given treatment and for inconsistency in the evidence from different . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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