| Ref ID | 271 |
| First Author | A. C. Melchiors |
| Journal | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACY |
| Year Of Publishing | 2012 |
| URL | https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11096-011-9592-0.pdf |
| Keywords |
• Pharmacological • Searching • Low reporting quality • Reproducibility • Risk of bias • Single reviewer |
| Problem(s) |
• Ignores setting or context of included studies which limits review applicability • No quality assessment undertaken or reported • Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality • Individual study characteristics not reported sufficiently • Single reviewer / lack of double checking • Insufficient literature searches • Methods not described to enable replication • Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | Brazil |
| Checklists |
• AMSTAR 1 |
| Aim | To assess the methodological quality (AMSTAR) of systematic reviews and meta-analysis on pharmacist health interventions published from 1990 to 2009. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | Fifteen of the 31 included systematic reviews did not report the care setting of interventions of the primary studies, while 6 of the reviews did not define the target population in the methods. For methodological quality, 7 reached a high score (AMSTAR 9–11), 18 had moderate quality (AMSTAR 5–8) and 6 had poor quality (AMSTAR 0–4). It was observed that the high quality articles were published between 2007 and 2009. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 31 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 151 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
| Interpretation impacted description |