Table 136Quality assessment of the evidence for the NMA for rate of exacerbations in the long-term

NMARisk of biasInconsistencyIndirectnessImprecisionOther considerationsQuality
Long term (>10 months) rate of exacerbations (4 studies)Serious1No serious inconsistencyNo serious indirectnessSerious2NoneLow
1

One included study was at low risk of bias, one study was at high risk of bias, and for the other two the risk of bias was unclear

2

No intervention has rank credible intervals ≤33% of total distribution of comparators

From: 9, Pulmonary monitoring, assessment and management

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