| Ref ID | 304 |
| First Author | V. N. Ndze |
| Journal | HUMAN VACCINES & IMMUNOTHERAPEUTICS |
| Year Of Publishing | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21645515.2019.1623998?needAccess=true |
| Keywords |
• Vaccination • Protocols • Low reporting quality • Risk of bias |
| Problem(s) |
• No registered or published protocol • Poor execution of narrative synthesis • Low reporting (PRISMA) quality • No quality assessment undertaken or reported |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | South Africa |
| Checklists |
• PRISMA 2009 |
| Aim | To assess the reporting quality (PRISMA) of systematic reviews of interventions aimed at improving vaccination coverage indexed up to May 2016. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | Median compliance with PRISMA across included reviews was 70%. Compliance was poorest in the items “describing summary of evidence” (item 24, 19%), “describing indication of review protocol and registration” (item 5, 26%) and “describing results of risk of bias across studies (item 22, 33%). |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 57 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 2322 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
| Interpretation impacted description |