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