Reporting of adverse events in systematic reviews can be improved: survey results

Ref ID 393
First Author S. Hopewell
Journal JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Year Of Publishing 2008
URL https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(07)00367-8/fulltext
Keywords • General medical
• Harms
• Cochrane
Problem(s) • Selective reporting of harms / safety / adverse events / side effects
Article Type Empirical
Article Subtype Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review
First Author Country United Kingdom
Aim To assess how information about adverse events is included in a sample of systematic reviews from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2003-2004) a sample from the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (2005).
Level of Investigation Descriptive
Summary of Findings 76% of Cochrane reviews mentioned adverse events as an outcome compared with 48% of reviews from the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects.
Number of systematic reviews included 157
Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed 168
Treatment impacted No
Treatment impacted description
Interpretation impacted Not Applicable
Interpretation impacted description