OBJECTIVE To examine how the results of network meta-analyses are reported. DESIGN Methodological systematic review of published reports of network meta-analyses. DATA SOURCES Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Medline, and Embase, searched from inception to 12 July 2012. STUDY SELECTION All network meta-analyses comparing the clinical ef...

Open environments are characterized by their uncertainty and non-determinism. This poses an inevitable challenge to the construction of agents operating in such environments. The agents need to adapt their processing to available resources, deadlines, the goal criteria specified by the clients as well as their current problem solving context in order to survive. Our research focuses on construc...

This article describes the Preferred Reporting Items of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines that are intended to help authors improve the reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, illustrating with examples from the Oncology Nursing Society journals and Putting Evidence Into Practice resources.

Because of the methodological complexity of network meta-analyses (NMAs), NMAs may be more vulnerable to methodological risks than conventional pair-wise meta-analysis. Our study aims to investigate epidemiology characteristics, conduction of literature search, methodological quality and reporting of statistical analysis process in the field of cancer based on PRISMA extension statement and mod...

Clinical decision-making requires synthesis of evidence from literature reviews focused on a specific theme. Evidence synthesis is performed with qualitative assessments and systematic reviews of randomized clinical trials, typically covering statistical pooling with pairwise meta-analyses. These methods include adjusted indirect comparison meta-analysis, network meta-analysis, and mixed-treatm...

This paper uses the concept of Meta-frontier to investigate the relationship between Meta Technology Ratios (MTR) and different varieties in datepalms including; Mazafati, Rabi and Zardan that are produced widely in Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran. We used a stratified sampling of 300 date farmers of this province in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and estimated a stochastic production frontier usi...