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Table 4 Summary of main features of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), osteroarthritis (OA), type 2 diabetes (T2D), chronic muskuloskeletal pain (CMP), and treatment resistant major depressive disorder (MDD) data sets

From: Bayesian splines versus fractional polynomials in network meta-analysis

 

COPD

OA

T2D

CMP

MDD

Number of studies

13

16

4

27

13

of treatments

3

7

4

6

10

Number of follow ups

2–6

1–10

2–5

2

3–4

Number of patients per study

46–3006

20–295

88–575

12–6769

24–1147

Network type

closed

non-closed

non-closed

non-closed

non-closed