| Ref ID | 403 |
| First Author | P. Whiting |
| Journal | JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY |
| Year Of Publishing | 2005 |
| URL | https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(04)00165-9/fulltext |
| Keywords |
• Diagnostic • Risk of bias |
| Problem(s) |
• No quality assessment undertaken or reported • Limited quality assessment or no risk of bias |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | United Kingdom |
| Aim | To assess the practice of quality assessment of primary studies used in systematic reviews of diagnostic studies retrieved indexed in the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects between 1995–2001. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | 49% of included reviews had not conducted any form of explicit quality assessment of the individual studies. None of the reviews had used the quality assessment to weight primary study results in the meta-analysis. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 114 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 114 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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