Reporting of adverse events of treatment interventions in multiple myeloma: an overview of systematic reviews

Ref ID 1038
First Author M. Mainou
Journal ANNALS OF HEMATOLOGY
Year Of Publishing 2024
URL https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00277-023-05517-7
Keywords • Harms
• Oncology
• Low methodological quality
• Disclosure
• Protocols
• Haematology
Problem(s) • No registered or published protocol
• Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality
• Conflicts of interest or funding of included studies not assessed
• Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided
• Meta-analyses and forest plots presented without considering risk of bias / quality
Number of systematic reviews included 23
Summary of Findings From 23 included 7 SRs indexed on Medline, Cochrane Library, Epistemonikos.org up to September 2023, focusing on adverse events due to antimyeloma treatments. The quality of included studies as judged by AMSTAR 2 was mostly critically low. None of the reviews provided a list of excluded studies, or reported on the sources of funding of studies, only 1 review assessed the potential impact of risk of bias in individual studies on the results of the meta-analysis, and 9 reviews (39.1%) did not have an a priori registered protocol.
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?