Systematic Reviews: Are They Actually Well Conducted and Reported in Accordance with PRISMA?

Ref ID 323
First Author M. Gholizadeh
Journal BULLETIN OF EMERGENCY & TRAUMA
Year Of Publishing 2020
URL https://beat.sums.ac.ir/article_46355_5f739e2a877d132927dc879d4c40530c.pdf
Keywords • Emergency medicine
• Reproducibility
• Searching
• Risk of bias
• Pre-specification
Problem(s) • Insufficient literature searches
• No quality assessment undertaken or reported
• Lack of prespecification in eligibility criteria
• Methods not described to enable replication
Article Type Editorial
Article Subtype Comment/letter
First Author Country Iran
Aim A letter highlighting some deficiencies in the conduct of one systematic review of drug-related hospital admissions.
Level of Investigation Descriptive
Summary of Findings The authors highlight deficiencies in the conduct of one systematic review of drug-related hospital admissions, published 2019, including searching only one database, lack of transparency of search terms, unclear eligibility criteria, no quality assessment.
Number of systematic reviews included 1
Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed 1