Compliance of systematic reviews in plastic surgery with the PRISMA statement

Ref ID 186
First Author S.-Y. Lee
Journal JAMA FACIAL PLASTIC SURGERY
Year Of Publishing 2016
URL https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26719993/
Keywords • Risk of bias
• Low reporting quality
• Protocols
• Surgery
Problem(s) • No registered or published protocol
• Low reporting (PRISMA) quality
• No quality assessment undertaken or reported
• Risk of bias not incorporated into conclusions of review
• Flawed risk of bias undertaken
Article Type Empirical
Article Subtype Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review
First Author Country United Kingdom
Checklists • PRISMA 2009
Aim To assess the reporting quality (PRISMA) of systematic reviews of plastic surgery published in 2013 and 2014 in 5 major plastic surgery journals.
Level of Investigation Descriptive
Summary of Findings The median PRISMA score was 16 (out of 27) for the 79 included systematic reviews of plastic surgery published in 2013 and 2014 in 5 major plastic surgery journals. Reporting was poorest for items related to the use of review protocol (5%), presentation of data on the risk of bias of each study (18%), presenting the results of subgroup analyses (25%), presenting risk of bias across studies (24%), .
Number of systematic reviews included 79
Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed 163
Treatment impacted No
Treatment impacted description
Interpretation impacted Not Applicable
Interpretation impacted description