Methodological quality of systematic reviews and clinical trials on women's health published in a Brazilian evidence-based health journal
Clinics
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68(4): 563-567, abr. 2013. tab, graf
Article
in English
| LILACS
| ID: lil-674231
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
To assess the quality of systematic reviews and clinical trials on women's health recently published in a Brazilian evidence-based health journal.METHOD:
All systematic reviews and clinical trials on women's health published in the last five years in the Brazilian Journal of Evidence-based Health were retrieved. Two independent reviewers critically assessed the methodological quality of reviews and trials using AMSTAR and the Cochrane Risk of Bias Table, respectively.RESULTS:
Systematic reviews and clinical trials accounted for less than 10% of the 61 original studies on women's health published in the São Paulo Medical Journal over the last five years. All five reviews were considered to be of moderate quality; the worst domains were publication bias and the appropriate use of study quality in formulating conclusions. All three clinical trials were judged to have a high risk of bias. The participant blinding, personnel and outcome assessors and allocation concealment domains had the worst scores.CONCLUSIONS:
Most of the systematic reviews and clinical trials on women's health recently published in a Brazilian evidence-based journal are of low to moderate quality. The quality of these types of studies needs improvement. .
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Index:
LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Publishing
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Review Literature as Topic
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Bibliometrics
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Clinical Trials as Topic
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Women's Health
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
English
Journal:
Clinics
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2013
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Brazilian Cochrane Center/BR
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