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
Number of systematic reviews included 10
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.
Did the article find that the problem(s) led to qualitative changes in interpretation of the results? N/A
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study? Yes