| Ref ID | 285 |
| First Author | T. Aziz |
| Journal | JOURNAL OF ORAL REHABILITATION |
| Year Of Publishing | 2013 |
| URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/joor.12028?download=true |
| Keywords |
• Risk of bias • Searching • Low reporting quality • Publication bias • Error • Grey literature • Disclosure • Single reviewer • Dentistry |
| Problem(s) |
• Grey literature excluded • Poor consideration of publication bias • Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality • Conflicts of interest or funding of included studies not assessed • Risk of bias not incorporated into conclusions of review • Conflict of interest statement or disclosures for review authors missing • No quality assessment undertaken or reported • Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided • Insufficient literature searches • Single reviewer / lack of double checking • Errors in effect estimate calculations or data synthesis |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | Canada |
| Checklists |
• AMSTAR 1 |
| Aim | To assess the methodological quality (AMSTAR) and key descriptive characteristics of systematic reviews published in prosthodontics across several databases between 1980 and 2011. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | The overall methodological quality of prosthodontics-related systematic reviews was limited. Publication bias assessed in 6% of reviews; grey literature was included in in 21% of reviews; quality assessment was incorporated into 31% of review conclusions; conflicts of interest were stated in 34% of reviews; quality assessment was performed/reported in 38% of reviews; a list of excluded studies was provided in 49% of reviews; appropriate methods for data synthesis were used in 51% of reviews; a comprehensive literature search was performed in 52% of reviews; duplicate study selection and data extraction were performed in 59% of reviews. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 128 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 306 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
| Interpretation impacted description |