“…The availability of different regimens of comparators complicates an integrated assessment of the overall efficacy and safety of new agents relative to the current standard of care, as well as indirect comparisons among the new agents, but this factor has not always been considered in published meta‐analyses for single1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or multiple8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 agents. Dose regimen of the comparator has been acknowledged as a potential source of heterogeneity for a number of previous analyses 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18.…”