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
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? N/A
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study? Yes