Systematic reviews of adverse effects of drug interventions: a survey of their conduct and reporting quality

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First Author V. Cornelius
Journal PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY
Year Of Publishing 2009
URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/pds.1844?download=true
Keywords • Harms
• Pharmacological
• Low reporting quality
Problem(s) • No quality assessment undertaken or reported
• Lack of prespecification in eligibility criteria
• Intervention not described / defined
• Search strategy not provided
Article Type Empirical
Article Subtype Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review
First Author Country United Kingdom
Aim To assess reporting quality of systematic reviews in general medicine and drug safety
Level of Investigation Descriptive
Summary of Findings The majority of the 43 included reviews of adverse effects of drug interventions were of poor reporting quality.
Number of systematic reviews included 43
Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed 2583