Blaaskatheterisatie Module 4 Quality-assessment-tabel

Table of quality assessment for systematic reviews of RCTs and observational studies

Study

 

 

 

 

First author, year

Appropriate and clearly focused question?

Yes/no/unclear

Comprehensive and systematic literature search?

Yes/no/unclear

Description of included and excluded studies?

Yes/no/unclear

Description of relevant characteristics of included studies?

Yes/no/unclear

Appropriate adjustment for potential confounders in observational studies?

Yes/no/unclear/not applicable

Assessment of scientific quality of included studies?

Yes/no/unclear

Enough similarities between studies to make combining them reasonable?

Yes/no/unclear

Potential risk of publication bias taken into account?

Yes/no/unclear

Potential conflicts of interest reported?

 

 

 

Yes/no/unclear

Cooper, 2016

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Not applicable

Yes, risk of bias is present

For Priefer (1982) risk of bias was assessed as high due to lack of blinding of participants and personnel. Sequence generation, allocation concealment and blinding of outcome assessment was unclear

 

Not applicable (no meta-analysis performed)

No (however only one study was included for this specific comparison)

Yes

Based on AMSTAR checklist (Shea et al.; 2007, BMC Methodol 7: 10; doi:10.1186/1471-2288-7-10) and PRISMA checklist (Moher et al 2009, PLoS Med 6: e1000097; doi:10.1371/journal.pmed1000097)