| Ref ID | 212 |
| First Author | W. K. Tan |
| Journal | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SURGERY |
| Year Of Publishing | 2014 |
| URL | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25448643/ |
| Keywords |
• Risk of bias • Low reporting quality • Reproducibility • Surgery |
| Problem(s) |
• Low reporting (PRISMA) quality • Risk of bias not incorporated into conclusions of review • Funding or sponsor of systematic review not reported • Methods not described to enable replication |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | United Kingdom |
| Checklists |
• PRISMA 2009 |
| Aim | To assess the reporting quality (PRISMA) of systematic reviews published in 2008 and 2012 in high impact journals for the field of vascular surgery. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | The average percentage of PRISMA items reported in the 74 included systematic reviews of general and vascular surgical journals in 2012 was 73%, compared to 65% in 2008, indicating some improvement in the quality of reporting (p < 0.01). However some areas of reporting remained deficient in 2012 including: protocol and registration (3%); describing results of subgroup analyses (35%); assessing risk of bias across studies (38%); describing methods of data extraction (57%), describing methods of synthesising results (65%); funding of systematic review (59%). |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 74 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 74 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
| Interpretation impacted description |