Efficacy and safety of tai chi exercise on bone health: An umbrella review

Ref ID	1034
First Author	J. Li
Journal	OSTEOPOROSIS INTERNATIONAL
Year Of Publishing	2023
URL	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00198-023-06830-7
Keywords	• Complimentary & Alternative • Low methodological quality • Musculoskeletal • Low reporting quality
Problem(s)	• No registered or published protocol • Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality • Low reporting (PRISMA) quality • Funding or sponsor of systematic review not reported • Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided • Lack of prespecification in eligibility criteria
Number of systematic reviews included	18
Summary of Findings	From 18 included systematic reviews indexed across PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang Database, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, and Chinese Scientific Journals Database) and in the international prospective register of systematic reviews of (PROSPERO) from initiation to March 2023. Using AMSTAR 2 to evaluate the SRs, 17 out of 18 (94.4%) were critically low. None of the reviews explained their selection of the study designs for inclusion. Only one SR (94,4%) provided a list of excluded studies with reasons or reported the sources of funding of the included studies. Sixteen SRs (88.8%) did not provide a publicy registered protocol. Only 1 SR was evaluated as high reporting quality using PRISMA 2020, with 7 and 10 SRs evaluated as moderate and low reporting quality, respectively
Did the article find that the problem(s) led to qualitative changes in interpretation of the results?	N/A
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study?