Methodological quality (risk of bias) assessment tools for primary and secondary medical studies: what are they and which is better?

LL Ma, YY Wang, ZH Yang, D Huang, H Weng… - … Medical Research, 2020 - Springer
quality assessment tools for randomized controlled trial (including individual and cluster),
animal study, non-randomized interventional studies (… keep up with current medical literature [4,…

A systematic review of the validity and reliability of patient‐reported experience measures

C Bull, J Byrnes, R Hettiarachchi… - … services research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… selection of instruments for quality assessment of health care services, … of an instrument and
the domains of patient-reported … only a small portion of medical journals, where papers such …

Risk of bias tools in systematic reviews of health interventions: an analysis of PROSPERO-registered protocols

K Farrah, K Young, MC Tunis, L Zhao - Systematic reviews, 2019 - Springer
… compared to RCT, the tools used to evaluate risk of bias (RoB) in … was to evaluate the planned
use of RoB tools in systematic … or publish their protocols in peer-reviewed journals, both of …

A 24-step guide on how to design, conduct, and successfully publish a systematic review and meta-analysis in medical research

T Muka, M Glisic, J Milic, S Verhoog, J Bohlius… - European journal of …, 2020 - Springer
… However, several studies assessing the quality of published … the study requires scanning
the literature to identify gaps in … In our experience most tools require actions for each reference …

[HTML][HTML] Development of the Instrument to assess the Credibility of Effect Modification Analyses (ICEMAN) in randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses

S Schandelmaier, M Briel, R Varadhan, CH Schmid… - Cmaj, 2020 - Can Med Assoc
Assessing the credibility of an apparent effect modification presents challenges; therefore,
we developed the Instrument for assessing the … modification claim from the medical literature. …

Evidence relating health care provider burnout and quality of care: a systematic review and meta-analysis

DS Tawfik, A Scheid, J Profit, T Shanafelt… - … of internal medicine, 2019 - acpjournals.org
… and analytic tools to evaluatepublished literature are modestly strong, our finding of excess
significance implies that the true magnitude may be smaller than reported, and the studies

Evaluating the credibility of anchor based estimates of minimal important differences for patient reported outcomes: instrument development and reliability study

T Devji, A Carrasco-Labra, A Qasim, M Phillips… - Bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
… developed for evaluating the credibility of anchor based MIDs based on a literature review
(… testing with experts and potential users facilitated the development of the final instrument. …

[HTML][HTML] Consumer evaluation of the quality of online health information: systematic literature review of relevant criteria and indicators

Y Sun, Y Zhang, J Gwizdka, CB Trace - Journal of medical Internet research, 2019 - jmir.org
… In this article, we focus on the following research questions: (1) What criteria do consumers
use to evaluate the quality of online health information? (2) What elements of information …

Which multi-attribute utility instruments are recommended for use in cost-utility analysis? A review of national health technology assessment (HTA) guidelines

M Kennedy-Martin, B Slaap, M Herdman… - The European Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
… Guidelines relating specifically to medical devices or technology were considered outside …
, a recently published review of European HTA guidelines for medical devices also found that …

Are financial payments from the pharmaceutical industry associated with physician prescribing? A systematic review

AP Mitchell, NU Trivedi, RL Gennarelli… - … of internal medicine, 2021 - acpjournals.org
studies have assessed industry payments across a broad range of medical specialties and
drug … therefore have been a novel contribution to the literature and of high interest to journals. …