Failure of a numerical quality assessment scale to identify potential risk of bias in a systematic review: a comparison study

O’Connor, Seán; A. Tully, Mark; Ryan, Brigid; Bradley, Judy; D Baxter, George; McDonough, Suzanne

doi:10.1186/s13104-015-1181-1

Public

Failure of a numerical quality assessment scale to identify potential risk of bias in a systematic review: a comparison study

Published in BMC Research Notes • Jun 5, 2015

Authors:

Seán O’Connor

Mark A. Tully

Brigid Ryan

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Assessing methodological quality of primary studies is an essential component of systematic reviews. Following a systematic review which used a domain based system [United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF)] to assess methodological quality, a commonly used numerical rating...

Subject

Medicine

Intraclass correlation

Randomized controlled trial

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!