A quality assessment of systematic reviews on telerehabilitation: what does the evidence tell us?

Ref ID 710
First Author M. Rogante
Journal ANNALI DELL'ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITA
Year Of Publishing 2015
URL https://dx.doi.org/10.4415/ANN_15_01_04
Keywords • Telemedicine
• Low reporting quality
• Error
• Grey literature
• Low methodological quality
• Risk of bias
Problem(s) • Grey literature excluded
• Reasons for excluding potentially eligible studies not provided
• Limited quality assessment or no risk of bias
• Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality
• Errors in effect estimate calculations or data synthesis
Article Type Empirical
Article Subtype Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review
First Author Country Italy
Checklists • AMSTAR 1
Aim To assess the methodological quality of a sample of systematic reviews on telerehabilitation using AMSTAR.
Level of Investigation Descriptive
Summary of Findings From the ten included systematic reviews on telerehabilitation, methodological quality using AMSTAR was commonly deficient including: analysis of grey literature; list of excluded studies; identification of possible risk of bias; appropriate method of synthesis.
Number of systematic reviews included 10
Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed 477
Treatment impacted No
Treatment impacted description
Interpretation impacted Not Applicable
Interpretation impacted description