Quality assessment of systematic reviews of health care interventions using AMSTAR

Ref ID 83
First Author V. Jagannath
Journal INDIAN PEDIATRICS
Year Of Publishing 2011
URL https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21169651/
Keywords Grey literature
General medical
Single reviewer
Problem(s) Grey literature excluded
Single reviewer / lack of double checking
Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality
Number of systematic reviews included 22
Summary of Findings From a sample of systematic reviews published in five leading Indian medical journals between 2000 to 2009 the most frequent limitations in the included reviews were duplicate study selection and data extraction (17/ 22)
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? No