Quality assessment of studies on interventional recanalization of fallopian tube in China / 中华放射学杂志

ABSTRACT

Obiective To evaluate the current status of studies on interventional recallalization of fallopian tube.Methods According to the standard of evidence-based medicine,literatures were analyzed by two readers in three time periods1997 to 2000,2001 to 2004 and 2005 t0 2008.Two separate evaluation results were tested by the statistical method Kappa to test its consistency.Scores of clinical controlled trials (CCT)and randomized controlled trials(RCT)were calculated according to Jadad score scale.The accurate criteria of case selection,case exclusion,and effect determination;the method of randomization;the number of samplesthe comparability of baseline;the blinded procedure;the therapeutic method;the method of statistical analysis:the follow-up cases; the drop-out cases and the conclusions derivation of RCT and CCT into descriptive analysis were evaluated Results One hundred and fifty seven therapeutic articles were searched and 30 RCT and CCT articles(25 RCT and 5 CCT)were analyzed.The Kappa value was 0.85 and P＜0.05 indicating that the evaluation was in good consistency.2,15 and 8 RCT received 0 point,1 point and 2 points respectively in Jadad score scale.RCT and CCT contained 9 articles(30.0%)fulfilled the accurate criteria of case selection and exclusion12 articles(40.0%)met the accurate criteria of effect determination4 articles(13.3%)utilized the definite method of randomization;27 articles (90.0%)had the number of sample beyond 60;14 articles(46.7%)met the baseline comparability;only 1 article(3.3%)used the single-blinded method,17 articles(56.7%)utilized the method of statistical analysis;13(43.3%)mentioned follow-up in articles;4(13.3%)mentioned drop-out cases in the articles and 14(46.7%)articles had the conclusions derived by considering the statistical significance and clinical significance.Conclusion The quality of studies on interventional recanalization of fallopian tube is poor and could not meet the standard of evidence-based medicine.