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