| Ref ID | 1051 |
| First Author | L.J. Rodgers |
| Journal | JOURNAL OF MANUAL & MANIPULATIVE THERAPY |
| Year Of Publishing | 2024 |
| URL | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37908101/ |
| Keywords |
• Pain • Low methodological quality • Musculoskeletal • Orthopaedic |
| Problem(s) |
• Single reviewer / lack of double checking • Insufficient literature searches • Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided • Conflicts of interest or funding of included studies not assessed • Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality • Redundant / overlapping / duplicated review question; leads to research waste |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | United States |
| Aim | To evaluate the methodological quality of systematic reviews indexed across PubMed, CINAHL, PsycInfo, and Embase of the hypoalgesia effects of manual therapy for musculoskeletal pain. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | Of the 29 [note discrepancy: abstract reports 30] included systematic reviews, only 1 (3%) was judged to be high quality using AMSTAR 2 assessments with 17 (57%) deemed critically low quality. Only 3 reviews (10.3%) reported a comprehensive literature search; 14 (48.2%) did not perform data extraction in duplicate; 22 (75.8%) did not provide a list of excluded studies; 28 (96.5%) reviews reported on the sources of funding for the included studies. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 29 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 816 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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