Lack of guidance or consistency in systematic overview / umbrella / review of systematic reviews

Articles that support this problem:

Overview authors rarely defined systematic reviews that are included in their overviews

2019 : Journal of clinical epidemiology

Systematic review adherence to methodological or reporting quality

2017 : Systematic reviews

Identifying approaches for assessing methodological and reporting quality of systematic reviews: a descriptive study

2017 : Systematic reviews

Systematic review finds overlapping reviews were not mentioned in every other overview

2014 : Journal of clinical epidemiology

Overviews of reviews often have limited rigor: a systematic review

2012 : Journal of clinical epidemiology

Risk of bias in overviews of reviews: a scoping review of methodological guidance and four‐item checklist

2017 : Research synthesis methods

A review found heterogeneous approaches and insufficient reporting in overviews on adverse events

2022 : Journal of clinical epidemiology