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Methodology Checklist 1 Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

This document provides a methodology checklist for systematically reviewing and meta-analyzing studies. It acknowledges borrowing items from the AMSTAR tool for assessing methodological quality of systematic reviews. The checklist contains items to evaluate a review's internal validity such as having a clearly defined research question, comprehensive literature search, selection and extraction of studies by multiple people, assessment of scientific quality, and consideration of publication bias. It also includes items for overall assessment of a review's methodological quality and applicability to targeted patient groups.

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Methodology Checklist 1 Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

This document provides a methodology checklist for systematically reviewing and meta-analyzing studies. It acknowledges borrowing items from the AMSTAR tool for assessing methodological quality of systematic reviews. The checklist contains items to evaluate a review's internal validity such as having a clearly defined research question, comprehensive literature search, selection and extraction of studies by multiple people, assessment of scientific quality, and consideration of publication bias. It also includes items for overall assessment of a review's methodological quality and applicability to targeted patient groups.

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Methodology Checklist 1: Systematic Reviews and Meta-

SIGN analyses
SIGN gratefully acknowledges the permission received from the authors of the AMSTAR tool to base
this checklist on their work: Shea BJ, Grimshaw JM, Wells GA, Boers M, Andersson N, Hamel C,. et
al. Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of
systematic reviews. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2007, 7:10 doi:10.1186/1471-2288-7-10.
Available from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/7/10 [cited 10 Sep 2012]

Study identification (Include author, title, year of publication, journal title, pages)

Guideline topic: Key Question No:

Before completing this checklist, consider:


Is the paper relevant to key question? Analyse using PICO (Patient or Population
Intervention Comparison Outcome). IF NO reject. IF YES complete the checklist.

Checklist completed by:

Section 1: Internal validity


In a well conducted systematic review: Does this study do it?

1.1 The research question is clearly defined and the


inclusion/ exclusion criteria must be listed in the Yes No
paper. If no reject

1.2 A comprehensive literature search is carried out. Yes No


Not applicable

If no reject

1.3 At least two people should have selected Yes No


studies.
Cant say

1.4 At least two people should have extracted data. Yes No

Cant say

1.5 The status of publication was not used as an Yes No


inclusion criterion.

1.6 The excluded studies are listed. Yes No

1.7 The relevant characteristics of the included Yes No


studies are provided.
1.8 The scientific quality of the included studies was Yes No
assessed and reported.

1.9 Was the scientific quality of the included studies Yes No


used appropriately?

1.10 Appropriate methods are used to combine the Yes No


individual study findings.
Cant say Not applicable

1.11 The likelihood of publication bias was assessed
appropriately. Yes No
Not applicable

1.12 Conflicts of interest are declared. Yes No

SECTION 2: OVERALL ASSESSMENT OF THE STUDY

2.1 What is your overall assessment of the High quality (++)


methodological quality of this review?
Acceptable (+)
Low quality (-)
Unacceptable reject 0
2.2 Are the results of this study directly applicable to Yes No
the patient group targeted by this guideline?
2.3 Notes:

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