| Ref ID | 873 |
| First Author | H. Howard |
| Journal | NORTH AMERICAN SPINE SOCIETY JOURNAL |
| Year Of Publishing | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666548422001019?via%3Dihub |
| Keywords |
• Low methodological quality • Searching • Surgery • Harms • Pre-specification |
| Problem(s) |
• Funding or sponsor of systematic review not reported • Low methodological (AMSTAR) quality • Selective reporting of harms / safety / adverse events / side effects • Insufficient literature searches • Lack of prespecification in eligibility criteria |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | United States |
| Checklists |
• AMSTAR 2 |
| Aim | To evaluate the completeness of harms reporting in systematic reviews on laminectomy. |
| Level of Investigation | Analytical |
| Summary of Findings | From 26 included systematic reviews that evaluated laminectomy for any indication indexed across MEDLINE (PubMed and Ovid), Embase, Epistemonikos, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in May 2022. The study authors found that two systematic reviews had completely omitted harms, 9 systematic reviews had between 0% and 50.0% harms item completion, and the 15 systematic reviews had > 50.01% harms item completion. The AMSTAR-2 evaluation graded 25 systematic reviews (25/26, 96.2%) as ‘critically low’ and 1 systematic review (1/26, 3.8%) as ‘low’. None of the included systematic reviews met the threshold for ‘moderate’ or ‘high’ quality designation. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 26 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 1794 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
| Interpretation impacted description |