| Ref ID | 806 |
| First Author | G.S. Bullock |
| Journal | TRANSLATIONAL SPORTS MEDICINE |
| Year Of Publishing | 2021 |
| URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/tsm2.240 |
| Keywords |
• Risk of bias • Physiotherapy • Statistical • Musculoskeletal • Non-Cochrane reviews |
| Problem(s) |
• Failure to address missing outcome data in analyses • Limited quality assessment or no risk of bias |
| Article Type | Editorial |
| Article Subtype | Comment/letter |
| First Author Country | United Kingdom |
| Aim | A letter to the editor highlighting concerns over the conduct of one systematic review and meta-analysis of prediction models for musculoskeletal injury published in 2020. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | The letter to the editor highlighting concerns over the conduct of one systematic review and meta-analysis of prediction models for musculoskeletal injury published in 2020. These include, the reported inappropriate use of the Newcastle Ottawa Scale for quality assessment of the included prediction model studies; the absence of the extraction or reporting on missing data and relevant missing data mechanisms; and other queries regarding the statistical synthesis. |
| 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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