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  • Inventi:hem/29139/19
    Quality of Reporting of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses in Emergency Medicine Based on the PRISMA Statement
    Research 2019 : July - September
    Femke Nawijn, Wietske H W Ham, Roderick M Houwert, Rolf H H Groenwold, Falco Hietbrink, Diederik P J Smeeing

    Background: Emergency department utilization has increased tremendously over the past years, which is\naccompanied by an increased necessity for emergency medicine research to support clinical practice. Important\nsources of evidence are systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses (MAs), but these can only be informative\nprovided their quality is sufficiently high, which can only be assessed if reporting is adequate. The purpose of this\nstudy was to assess the quality of reporting of SRs and MAs in emergency medicine using the PRISMA statement.\nMethods: The top five emergency medicine related journals were selected using the 5-year impact factor of the ISI\nWeb of Knowledge of 2015. All SRs and MAs published in these journals between 2015 and 2016 were extracted\nand assessed independently by two reviewers on compliance with each item of the PRISMA statement.\nResults: The included reviews (n = 112) reported a mean of..............

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    Attribution/ CC Compliant Citation: Nawijn, Femke, et al.\n\"Quality of reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses\nin emergency medicine based on the PRISMA statement.\"\nBMC emergency medicine 19.1 (2019): 19.\nhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-019-0233-6\nhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\n\nSome formatting elements, header, footer, logos, dates and\npagination were modified while adapting this article.
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