- Framework of problems / Rigourous
- No quality assessment undertaken or reported
- A systematic review finds that diagnostic reviews fail to incorporate quality despite available tools
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 |
Number of systematic reviews included | 114 |
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. |
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? | No |