title: The transitive property across randomized controlled trials: if B is better than A, and C is better than B, will C be better than A?
authors.affiliation: División de Farmacoepidemiología y Farmacovigilancia, Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios (AEMPS), Madrid, Spain; Fundación Instituto de Investigación en Servicios de Salud, Valencia, Spain. Electronic address: ferran_catala@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Ferrán
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Catalá-López
authors.affiliation: Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hutton
authors.affiliation: Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moher
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic