TIPS AND TRICKS: Critical appraisal of systematic reviews

O’Mathúna, Dónal P

doi:10.1111/j.1440-172x.2010.01863.x

Int J of Nursing Practice

2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-172x.2010.01863.x

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TIPS AND TRICKS: Critical appraisal of systematic reviews

Dónal P O’Mathúna

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“…AMSTAR was determined to be valid, reliable, and, most important, practical since it takes on average less than 15 minutes to complete a systematic review evaluation with this instrument 29 . As a result, AMSTAR became popular with groups such as the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care Group and other proponents of evidence‐based professional guidelines 13 , 22 , 30 …”

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Dental Students’ Use of AMSTAR to Critically Appraise Systematic Reviews

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2015

Journal of Dental Education

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The idea of basing clinical procedures upon evidence gathered by observation is less than 200 years old, with the irst set of evidence-based position papers dating back only to the early 1970s. The relationship between evidence-based education and health outcomes is dificult to test and may be indirect, but teaching critical appraisal skills may be beneicial in developing knowledge. Systematic reviews have a central role in the process of clinical decision making in practice and therefore should be of high quality, following a rigorous protocol that can be evaluated with validated tools. The aim of this study was to assess how dental students utilized the Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) appraisal tool to evaluate systematic reviews in the context of a treatment planning course. During the in-class inal exam, students were required to appraise the quality of a systematic review and to justify their answers. Of the 74 third-year students who took the exam, 100% answered all questions on the AMSTAR form. The mean number of correct answers was nine (SD=1.047, Min=6, Max=10), with no student providing all 11 correct answers. The fact that nearly 90% of the students provided eight or more correct answers suggests that AMSTAR can be used by students to evaluate the methodological quality of systematic reviews. It also was evident that although the AMSTAR tool requires less than 15 minutes to complete an evaluation, using it requires extensive training and repetition to achieve consistent and reliable results.

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Dental Students’ Use of AMSTAR to Critically Appraise Systematic Reviews

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2015

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Conducting Systematic Evidence Reviews: Core Concepts and Lessons Learned

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Harniss²,

Schomer³

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Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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Outsourcing in Turkish hospitals: a systematic review

Akbulut¹,

Terekli²,

Yildirim³

2012

Ankara Sa

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Dış kaynak kullanımı devlet hastanelerinde temel bir strateji haline gelmekte ve son zamanlarda tanınırlığı artmaktadır. Türkiye'de bu trendi oluşturan itici güç, özel sektördeki baskıların ve rekabetin kamu sektörünü daha verimli kılacağı gerçeğine dayanarak Sağlık Bakanlığı tarafından başlatılmıştır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, sistematik analiz yoluyla Türkiye'deki hastanelerde dış kaynak kullanımı konusunda elde edilen farklı araştırma bulgularını karşılaştırmak, bütünleştirmek ve gelecekteki araştırmalara yönelik öneride bulunmaktır. Analizde 2005 ve 2011 yılları arasında yayınlanmış toplam 15 çalışma (8 tez, 7 makale) kapsama alınmıştır. Bu çalışmaların sonuçlarına göre, dış kaynak kullanımının maliyetleri azalttığı, verimliliği ve hizmetlerin kalitesini artırdığı bulunmuştur. Sadece bir çalışmada dış kaynak kullanımının hastane maliyetlerine etkisi hastane kayıtlarına dayalı olarak incelenmiştir. Başka bir çalışmada ise hastane çalışanlarının memnuniyet düzeyi düşük bulunmuştur. Sonuç olarak, Türkiye'deki kamu ve özel hastanelerde dış kaynaklardan yararlanılarak verilen hizmetlerin etkilerini belirleyen objektif kalite, verimlilik ve maliyet indikatörlerine dayalı ampirik araştırmalara gereksinim duyulduğu söylenebilir.

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TIPS AND TRICKS: Critical appraisal of systematic reviews

Cited by 7 publications

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Dental Students’ Use of AMSTAR to Critically Appraise Systematic Reviews

Dental Students’ Use of AMSTAR to Critically Appraise Systematic Reviews

Conducting Systematic Evidence Reviews: Core Concepts and Lessons Learned

Outsourcing in Turkish hospitals: a systematic review

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