| Ref ID | 805 |
| First Author | H.X. Zhang |
| Journal | WORLD JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS |
| Year Of Publishing | 2021 |
| URL | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12519-021-00480-7 |
| Keywords |
• Error • COVID • Radiology • Non-Cochrane reviews |
| Problem(s) |
• Data extraction errors and double counting |
| Article Type | Editorial |
| Article Subtype | Comment/letter |
| First Author Country | China |
| Aim | A letter highlighting concerns with the conduct of one systematic review of chest computed tomography in infants with confirmed COVID-19 published in 2021. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | The letter highlights concerns with the conduct of one systematic review of chest computed tomography in infants with confirmed COVID-19 published in 2021 in which there was likely to be a degree of double counting in the included studies as the hospitals and regions of included cases were not extracted by the review authors and the included studies are noted to contain overlapping cases. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 1 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 1 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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