Stone expulsion rate (SER)
Compared to placebo all the treatment groups were more effective except
NIF AND SIL (figure 3). Risk ratio (RR) of stone expulsion rate compared
to placebo were highest for NAF-S [2.4 (1.6, 3.8)] followed by
TADplusTAM-S [2.1 (1.3, 3.6)] and TADplusSILO [1.9 (1.3, 2.8)].
Rest of the risk ratios with their 95% confidence intervals (CI) have
been provided in the table 2. SUCRA values were calculated to estimate
the rank of efficacy according to stone expulsion rate (Supplementary
Table 2). According to the SUCRA values obtained NAF-S had the highest
rank followed by TADplusTAM-S and TADplusSILO. NIF had the lowest sucra
value among treatment modalities.Global approaches for inconsistency
models revealed consistency assumption for direct and indirect
assumptions. Loop specific approach revealed 13 treatment loops without
inconsistency (Supplementary figure 2). Node splitting revealed
inconsistency for three comparisons i.e. C vs NAF, C vs. SILO and NAF
vs. TAM.