Journal article
AMSTAR 2: A critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised or non-randomised studies of healthcare interventions, or both
BJ Shea, BC Reeves, G Wells, M Thuku, C Hamel, J Moran, D Moher, P Tugwell, V Welch, E Kristjansson, DA Henry
BMJ Online | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2017
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j4008
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Abstract
The number of published systematic reviews of studies of healthcare interventions has increased rapidly and these are used extensively for clinical and policy decisions. Systematic reviews are subject to a range of biases and increasingly include non-randomised studies of interventions. It is important that users can distinguish high quality reviews. Many instruments have been designed to evaluate different aspects of reviews, but there are few comprehensive critical appraisal instruments. AMSTAR was developed to evaluate systematic reviews of randomised trials. In this paper, we report on the updating of AMSTAR and its adaptation to enable more detailed assessment of systematic reviews that..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by an operating grant from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (grant No MOP-130470). BCR is supported in part by the UK National Institute for Health Research Bristol Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit.