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 Cochrane
Harms
General medical
Problem(s) Selective reporting of harms / safety / adverse events / side effects
Number of systematic reviews included 157
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.
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? Yes