| Ref ID | 478 |
| First Author | M. Maden |
| Journal | EVIDENCE BASED LIBRARY & INFORMATION PRACTICE |
| Year Of Publishing | 2016 |
| URL | https://search.proquest.com/docview/1822123674?accountid=13828 |
| Keywords |
• General medical • Risk of bias • Publication bias |
| Problem(s) |
• No quality assessment undertaken or reported • Poor consideration of publication bias • Risk of bias not incorporated into conclusions of review |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | United Kingdom |
| Checklists |
• PRISMA 2009 • AMSTAR 1 |
| Aim | To assess systematic reviews in the Library and Information Science domain for their approaches to quality assessment as well as their methodological (AMSTAR) and reporting (PRISMA) quality published up to 2014. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | Only 25% of included reviews assessed the methodological quality of the included studies. Only 22.5% of reviews incorporated quality assessment onto the analysis. Only 2.5% of review assessed the likelihood of publication bias. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 40 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 40 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
| Interpretation impacted description |