- Framework of problems / Rigourous
- No quality assessment undertaken or reported
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of home telemonitoring interventions for patients with chronic diseases: a critical assessment of their methodological quality
Ref ID | 194 |
First Author | S. Kitsiou |
Journal | JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH |
Year Of Publishing | 2013 |
URL | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23880072/ |
Keywords |
Grey literature Risk of bias Telemedicine Searching Single reviewer |
Problem(s) |
Lack of supplementary searches beyond databases Grey literature excluded Single reviewer / lack of double checking Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality No quality assessment undertaken or reported Risk of bias not incorporated into conclusions of review |
Number of systematic reviews included | 24 |
Summary of Findings | Methodological quality was suboptimal in the 24 systematic reviews of home telemonitoring for chronic diseases published between 1966 and 2012. Areas of low adherence included: duplicate data extraction (42%), manual searches of highly relevant journals (13%), inclusion of grey (8%) and non-English literature (21%), assessment of the methodological quality of included studies (33%) and incorporation of quality in conclusions (25%). |
Did the article find that the problem(s) led to qualitative changes in interpretation of the results? | Not Applicable |
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study? | Yes |