• 1. Center for Evidence-based and Translational Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China;
  • 2. Center for Evidence-based Medicine and Clinical Research, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan 442000, China;
  • 3. Clinical Research and Evaluation Unit, Chinese Evidence-based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China;
ZENGXian-tao, Email: zengxiantao1128@163.com
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ITC (Indirect Treatment Comparison) software and indirect procedure of Stata software are especially used for indirect comparison nowadays, both of which possess the characteristics of friendly concise interface and support for menu operation. ITC software needs the application of other software to yield effect estimation and its confidence interval of direct comparison firstly; while Stata-indirect procedure can complete direct comparison internally and also operate using commands, which simplifies complicated process of indirect comparison. However, both of them only perform "single-pathway" of data transferring and pooling, which is a common deficiency. From the results, their results are of high-degree similarity.

Citation: LISheng, ZHANGChao, YUANRui-xia, XUChang, ZENGXian-tao. Brief Introduction of Indirect Comparison Software. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2015, 15(3): 362-366. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20150061 Copy

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