| Ref ID | 166 |
| First Author | R. G. McGee |
| Journal | JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRICS & CHILD HEALTH |
| Year Of Publishing | 2013 |
| URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/jpc.12156?download=true |
| Keywords |
• Surgery • Paediatrics • Risk of bias • Low reporting quality • Reproducibility |
| Problem(s) |
• Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality • Methods not described to enable replication • Intervention not described / defined • Meta-analyses and forest plots presented without considering risk of bias / quality • Failure to define clinically meaningful outcomes • Individual study characteristics not reported sufficiently |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | Australia |
| Checklists |
• AMSTAR 1 |
| Aim | To assess the reporting (PRISMA) and methodological (AMSTAR) quality of conduct and reporting of systematic reviews of surgical procedures in children published across several databases up to 2011. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | Reporting and methodological quality, as assessed by PRISMA and AMSTAR respectively, was generally adequate although there were several omissions, particularly around completeness of reporting of statistical methods used, and use of quality assessments in analyses. Descriptions of procedures often lacked specific details, which would enhance their reproduction, for example, highlighting similarities and differences between the surgical procedures used in the trials included in the review. Reported outcomes were diverse and loosely defined. Less than a third of reviews assessed outcomes important to patients and clinicians such as adverse events. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 15 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 24633 |