Quality of systematic reviews of the Foods with Function Claims registered at the Consumer Affairs Agency Web site in Japan: a prospective systematic review

Ref ID 191
First Author H. Kamioka
Journal NUTRITION RESEARCH
Year Of Publishing 2017
URL https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28473057/
Keywords • Nutrition
• Risk of bias
• Publication bias
• Protocols
Problem(s) • No registered or published protocol
• Poor consideration of publication bias
• No quality assessment undertaken or reported
• Risk of bias not incorporated into conclusions of review
• Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality
Article Type Empirical
Article Subtype Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review
First Author Country Japan
Checklists • AMSTAR 1
Aim To assess the methodological quality (AMSTAR) of systematic reviews of Foods with Function Claims registered at the Consumer Affairs Agency website in Japan.
Level of Investigation Descriptive
Summary of Findings The quality of the systematic reviews of Foods with Function Claims was poor (mean AMSTAR ± SD; 6.2 ± 1.8 points, range; 2-11 points). In particular there was poor registration (2%), evaluation of publication bias (12%), and appropriate conclusions based on scientific quality of the included studies (27%).
Number of systematic reviews included 49
Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed 118
Treatment impacted No
Treatment impacted description
Interpretation impacted Not Applicable
Interpretation impacted description