| Ref ID | 341 |
| First Author | F. Hoffmann |
| Journal | JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY |
| Year Of Publishing | 2020 |
| URL | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31809847/ |
| Keywords |
• General medical • Language • Risk of bias • Protocols |
| Problem(s) |
• No registered or published protocol • No quality assessment undertaken or reported |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | Germany |
| Aim | To assess reporting and methodological aspects of systematic reviews on prevalence and cumulative incidence data from a random sample of systematic reviews indexed in PubMed up to 18 April, 2018. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | Few included reviews were registered with PROSPERO (5.6%). One-quarter considered articles without languages restrictions (25.1%). Regional restrictions of included studies were applied in 22.8%. 49.3% of reviews assessed risk of bias or study quality. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 215 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 22035 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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