| Ref ID | 1006 |
| First Author | S. de Bell |
| Journal | HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE DELIVERY RESEARCH |
| Year Of Publishing | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK597759/ |
| Keywords |
• General medical • Low methodological quality • Telemedicine • Non-Cochrane reviews • Transparency • Protocols • Searching |
| Problem(s) |
• Lack of supplementary searches beyond databases • Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided • Funding or sponsor of systematic review not reported • Risk of bias not incorporated into conclusions of review • Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality • No registered or published protocol • Intervention not described / defined |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | United Kingdom |
| Checklists |
• AMSTAR 2 |
| Aim | The aim of the evidence and gap map was to provide an overview of the volume, diversity and nature of recent systematic reviews on the effectiveness, acceptability and implementation of remote monitoring for adults with long-term physical health conditions |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | From 17 included systematic reviews indexed across MEDLINE and nine further databases including Epistemonikos published between 2018 and March 2022. The majority of the 72 reviews in the map were of low quality (n = 33; 45.8%) of which 12 were of critically low quality (16.6%). In 56% of included reviews, the reason for low quality was the lack of a protocol. It was often unclear whether the risk of bias in other quantitative study designs or qualitative studies had been assessed adequately (70%). Many reviews had adequate searches but their search strategies were not rated as fully comprehensive (68%), as they did not search as extensively as possible, for example in the grey literature or the reference lists of included studies. Few reviews described the funding sources of studies (82%) or gave full details of excluded studies (71%). |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 72 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 7063 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
| Interpretation impacted description |