Improving the usefulness of a tool for appraising the quality of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies, the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT)

QN Hong, A Gonzalez‐Reyes… - Journal of evaluation in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Rationale, aims, and objectives Systematic reviews combining qualitative, quantitative,
and/or mixed methods studies are increasingly popular because of their potential for …

Development of a critical appraisal tool to assess the quality of cross-sectional studies (AXIS)

MJ Downes, ML Brennan, HC Williams, RS Dean - BMJ open, 2016 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives The aim of this study was to develop a critical appraisal (CA) tool that addressed
study design and reporting quality as well as the risk of bias in cross-sectional studies …

[HTML][HTML] Methodological quality of COVID-19 clinical research

RG Jung, P Di Santo, C Clifford… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020 with major health consequences. While a
need to disseminate information to the medical community and general public was …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced maternal age and adverse pregnancy outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

SC Lean, H Derricott, RL Jones, AEP Heazell - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Advanced maternal age (AMA;≥ 35 years) is an increasing trend and is
reported to be associated with various pregnancy complications. Objective To determine the …

Prevalence of multiple forms of sexting behavior among youth: A systematic review and meta-analysis

S Madigan, A Ly, CL Rash, J Van Ouytsel… - JAMA …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The existing literature on sexting among youth shows that sexting is a predictor
of sexual behavior and may be associated with other health outcomes and risky behaviors …

Prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea in the general population: a systematic review

CV Senaratna, JL Perret, CJ Lodge, AJ Lowe… - Sleep medicine …, 2017 - Elsevier
With this systematic review we aimed to determine the prevalence of obstructive sleep
apnea (OSA) in adults in the general population and how it varied between population sub …

GRADE guidelines: 18. How ROBINS-I and other tools to assess risk of bias in nonrandomized studies should be used to rate the certainty of a body of evidence

HJ Schünemann, C Cuello, EA Akl, RA Mustafa… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective To provide guidance on how systematic review authors, guideline developers, and
health technology assessment practitioners should approach the use of the risk of bias in …

[HTML][HTML] COSMOS-E: guidance on conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies of etiology

OM Dekkers, JP Vandenbroucke, M Cevallos… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background To our knowledge, no publication providing overarching guidance on the
conduct of systematic reviews of observational studies of etiology exists. Methods and …

Moral foundations and political orientation: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

JM Kivikangas, B Fernández-Castilla… - Psychological …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
We investigate the relationship of morality and political orientation by focusing on the
influential results showing that liberals and conservatives rely on different moral foundations …

[HTML][HTML] The relationship between professional burnout and quality and safety in healthcare: a meta-analysis

MP Salyers, KA Bonfils, L Luther, RL Firmin… - Journal of general …, 2017 - Springer
Background Healthcare provider burnout is considered a factor in quality of care, yet little is
known about the consistency and magnitude of this relationship. This meta-analysis …