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 Reproducibility
Risk of bias
Pre-specification
Emergency medicine
Searching
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? Not Applicable
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study?