Issues in reporting of systematic review methods in health app-focused reviews: A scoping review

Ref ID 808
First Author R. Grainger
Journal HEALTH INFORMATICS JOURNAL
Year Of Publishing 2020
URL https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1460458220952917
Keywords Telemedicine
Low reporting quality
Problem(s) Single reviewer / lack of double checking
Low reporting (PRISMA) quality
No registered or published protocol
Number of systematic reviews included 26
Summary of Findings From 26 systematic reviews of mobile health apps indexed in Medline (via Ovid), AMED, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library (via Ovid), PubMed, CINAHL (via EBSCO) and Scopus between 1 January 2012 to 1 August 2018. Of the 26 included systematic reviews, reporting quality (PRISMA) was variable. Only one reported a priori protocol registration and four stated reporting was based on the PRISMA guideline for systematic reviews. The number of reviewers involved in conducting app screening and selection was poorly reported in over half of articles (58%, 15/26) and not reported in two articles.
Did the article find that the problem(s) led to qualitative changes in interpretation of the results? Not Applicable
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study? Yes