Journal article
Background research for the decision support tool of evidence-based evaluation for essential medicines: 1. overview of quality assessment tools for systematic review of randomized controlled trials
Abstract
To comprehensively collect quality assessment tools of systematic review/meta-analysis (SR/MA) of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and compare the differences of numbers and contents of items, in order to provide references for optimizing and using these quality assessment tools. MethodsWe searched PubMed and EMbase databases up to December 31th, 2013 for quality assessment tools of SR/MA of RCTs. EndNote X3 software was used for screening …
Authors
Yang ZX; Li X; Wang L; Li YP; Tang XL
Journal
Chinese Journal of Evidence Based Medicine, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 723–729
Publication Date
January 1, 2015
DOI
10.7507/1672-2531.20150120
ISSN
1672-2531