| Ref ID | 152 |
| First Author | L. B. Mokkink |
| Journal | QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH |
| Year Of Publishing | 2009 |
| URL | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-009-9451-9 |
| Keywords |
• General medical • Low reporting quality • Searching • Risk of bias • Single reviewer |
| Problem(s) |
• Low reporting or methodological quality (OTHER GUIDANCE) • Single reviewer / lack of double checking • Insufficient literature searches • No quality assessment undertaken or reported |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | The Netherlands |
| Aim | To assess the quality of the review process, to describe how authors assess the methodological quality of primary studies of measurement properties, and to describe how authors evaluate results of the studies for systematic reviews of health status measurement instruments published across 3 databases up to 2007. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | 22% of the 148 included systematic reviews searched only one database. In many cases it was not reported whether article selection (75%) and data extraction (71%) was done by two independent reviewers. In 44% (n = 65/148) of the reviews the methodological quality of the included studies was not assessed. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 148 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 7779 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
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| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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