Table 2 Additional quality assessments from the Cochrane Handbook scoring
From: An assessment of the quality of current clinical meta-analyses
Quality assessment | Number of meta-analyses reporting item (%) |
|---|---|
Date of search provided | 88 (88) |
Number of databases searched ≥3 | 78 (78) |
Breakdown of number of databases searched: | |
➢ Not reported | 2 (2) |
➢ 1 | 6 (6) |
➢ 2 | 14 (14) |
➢ 3 | 42 (42) |
➢ 4 | 12 (12) |
➢ 5 | 10 (10) |
➢ 6 | 5 (5) |
➢ 7 | 4 (4) |
➢ 8 | 3 (3) |
➢ 9 | 1 (1) |
➢ 14 | 1 (1) |
Included searches for all databasesa | 37 (37) |
Included platform for each databaseb | 23 (23) |
Claimed a reporting tool | 72 (72) |
Is the reporting tool appropriatec | 71 (71) |