Quality of systematic reviews in African emergency medicine: a cross-sectional methodological study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Reliable systematic reviews are essential to inform clinical practice guidelines, policies and further research priorities in Africa. For systematic review findings to be trustworthy, they need to be conducted with methodological rigour and reported transparently. We assessed the methodological quality of systematic reviews published in African emergency medicine journals, comparing them to those published in international emergency medicine journals. Additionally, we describe the types of review literature published in the African journals.

Methods

We performed a cross-sectional methodological study of systematic reviews published in selected African and international emergency medicine journals from 2012 to 2021. Studies were eligible if they were i) a systema

SUBMITTER: van Niekerk J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10757176 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature