Publications by authors named "Tony Ades"

Introduction: Biologic therapies are efficacious but costly. A number of health economic models have been developed to determine the most cost-effective way of using them in the treatment pathway. These models have produced conflicting results, driven by differences in assumptions, model structure, and data, which undermine the credibility of funding decisions based on modeling studies.

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Background: Our objective was to estimate the comparative harms of individual statins using both placebo-controlled and active-comparator trials.

Methods And Results: We systematically reviewed randomized trials evaluating different statins in participants with and without cardiovascular disease. We performed random-effects pairwise and network meta-analyses to quantify the relative harms of individual statins.

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