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
Number of systematic reviews included 1
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.
Did the article find that the problem(s) led to qualitative changes in interpretation of the results? N/A
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study? N/A