Table 3 Agreement and disagreement in systematic review findings from replicated Jadad assessments
Discordant Review | Discordant Review authors’ or our Jadad assessments | Review(s) chosen by the Discordant Review (First author Year) | Cochrane or non-Cochrane SR | Risk of bias in the review | Type of effect estimate | Pooled effect sizes and 95% CI | Statistical significance (p-value of the effect estimate) | Results favourable, null, or unfavourable | Direction of effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bakdach 2020 | Discordant Review authors | Sardana 2018 | Non-Cochrane | Low | Risk ratio | 0.39 (0.26–0.59) | 0.005 | Favourable | Disagree |
| Â | Our Choice | Tasios 2019 (and Sardana 2019) | Non-Cochrane | Low | Risk ratio | 0.46 (0.18-1.15) | 0.1 | Null | |
Chalmers 2015 | Discordant Review authors | Pulavarti 2007 | Cochrane | Low | Risk ratio | 0.89 (0.09, 8.72) | 0.92 | Null | Agree |
| Â | Our Choice | Lenters (and Pulavarti 2007) | Non-Cochrane | Low | Risk ratio | 1.31 (0.51, 3.34) | 0.58 | Null | |
Chen 2019 | Discordant Review authors | Shen 2017 | Non-Cochrane | Low | Mean difference | -17.39 (-22.32, -12.46) | < 0.00001 | Favourable | Agree |
| Â | Our Choice | Dai et al. 2017 | Non-Cochrane | Low | Mean difference | -2.83 (-4.26, -1.39) | 0.0001 | Favourable | |
Fu 2019 | Discordant Review authors | Rabi et al. 2015 | Non-Cochrane | High | Mean difference | 1.63 (-2.84, 6.11) | 0.47 | Null | Agree |
| Â | Our Choice | Handoll 2012 | Cochrane | Low | Mean difference | 2.36 (-3.52, 8.24) | 0.43 | Null | |
Guo 2018 | Discordant Review authors | Xia 2014 | Non-Cochrane | High | Risk ratio | 1.19 (1.05, 1.35) | 0.006 | Favourable | Agree |
|  | Our Choice | Hu 2011 | Non-Cochrane | Low | Odds Ratio | 3.34 (1.92, 5.81) | < 0.0001 | Favourable | |
Houck 2017 | Discordant Review authors | Riboh 2014 | Non-Cochrane | Low | Mean difference | 14.70 (5.52, 23.87) | 0.002 | Favourable | Agree |
| Â | Our Choice | Chan 2014 | Non-Cochrane | High | Mean difference | 1.05 (0.03, 2.06) | 0.04 | Favourable | |
Mascarenhas 2014 | Discordant Review authors | Millett 2014 | Non-Cochrane | Low | Mean difference | -3.7 (-8.8, 1.4) | 0.16 | Null | Agree |
| Â | Our Choice | Sheibani-Rad 2013 | Non-Cochrane | High | Mean difference | 0.159 (-0.08, 0.40) | 0.255 | Null | |
Pekala 2019 | Discordant Review authors | Pabalan 2016 | Non-Cochrane | High | Odds ratio | 0.99 (0.75, 1.31) | 0.95 | Null | Agree |
|  | Our Choice | Nong 2016 (and Pabalan 2016) | Non-Cochrane | Low | Odds ratio | 1.13 (0.76–1.69) | 0.55 | Null | |
Song 2016 | Discordant Review authors | Cao 2015 | Non-Cochrane | High | Risk ratio | 0.41 (0.07, 2.52) | 0.34 | Null | Agree |
| Â | Discordant Review authors | Wu 2015 | Non-Cochrane | Low | Risk ratio | 0.98 (0.2, 4.75) | 0.98 | Null | |
| Â | Our Choice | Gurusamy 2013 | Cochrane | Low | Odds ratio | 0.49 (0.05, 4.72) | 0.54 | Null | |
Tan 2018 | Discordant Review authors | Feng 2015 | Non-Cochrane | Low | Mean difference | -0.18 (-0.36, -0.00) | 0.04 | Favourable | Disagree |
| Â | Our Choice | Lin 2013 | Non-Cochrane | High | Mean difference | 0.05 (-0.49, 0.59) | 0.87 | Null | |
Xing 2016 | Discordant Review authors | Bellamy 2006 | Cochrane | High | Mean difference | -13.00 (-17.77, -8.33) | < 0.00001 | Favourable | Agree |
| Â | Our Choice | Richette 2015 (and Bellamy 2006) | Non-Cochrane | High | Standardised mean difference | -0.21 (-0.32, -0.1) | NR | Favourable | |
Zhao 2015a | Discordant Review authors | Ouyang 2013 | Non-Cochrane | Low | Risk ratio | 1.20 (0.63, 2.28) | 0.58 | Null | Agree |
| Â | Our Choice | Heineman 2010 | Non-Cochrane | Low | Risk Ratio | 0.71 (0.28, 1.76) | 0.45 | Null | |
Zhiyong 2019 | Discordant Review authors | Sun et al. 2016 | Non-Cochrane | Low | Mean difference | -0.12 (-0.33, 0.09) | 0.28 | Null | Disagree |
| Â | Our Choice | Feng 2015 | Non-Cochrane | Low | Mean difference | -0.18 (-0.36, -0.00) | 0.04 | Favourable |