| Ref ID | 44 |
| First Author | K. K. Kedzior |
| Journal | COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES IN MEDICINE |
| Year Of Publishing | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0965229919302729?via%3Dihub |
| Keywords |
• Reproducibility • Protocols • Error • Low reporting quality • Overlapping reviews/redundancy • Complementary & Alternative |
| Problem(s) |
• No registered or published protocol • Methods not described to enable replication • Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided • Incorrect interpretation or statistical inference error from meta-analysis • Conflicts of interest or funding of included studies not assessed • Low reporting (PRISMA) quality • Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality • Redundant / overlapping / duplicated review question; leads to research waste |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | Germany |
| Checklists |
• PRISMA 2009 • AMSTAR 2 |
| Aim | To assess the reporting quality (PRISMA) and methodological quality (AMSTAR) of systematic reviews of Tai Chi for Parkinson's disease published between 2008-2017 in PubMed and PsycInfo. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | Limitations of the ten included systematic reviews of Tai Chi for Parkinson's Disease were the high overlap in the primary data and the lack of either the review protocol, the list of excluded studies or the conflict of interest statement in the primary studies. The critical problems were that the qualitative data synthesis relied on the statistical significance of results in the primary studies with small sample sizes and that the computational details of meta-analysis were inadequately reported. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 10 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 18 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
| Interpretation impacted description |