| 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 |
• Telemedicine • Risk of bias • Searching • Grey literature • Single reviewer |
| Problem(s) |
• Risk of bias not incorporated into conclusions of review • 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 |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | Canada |
| Aim | To assess the methodological quality (R-AMSTAR), and reporting characteristics of systematic reviews of home telemonitoring interventions in the context of chronic diseases published between 1966 and 2012. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| 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%). |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 24 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 240 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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