Tools for assessing quality of studies investigating health interventions using real-world data: a literature review and content analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aimed to identify existing appraisal tools for non-randomised studies of interventions (NRSIs) and to compare the criteria that the tools provide at the quality-item level.

Design

Literature review through three approaches: systematic search of journal articles, snowballing search of reviews on appraisal tools and grey literature search on websites of health technology assessment (HTA) agencies.

Data sources

Systematic search: Medline; Snowballing: starting from three articles (D'Andrea et al, Quigley et al and Faria et al); Grey literature: websites of European HTA agencies listed by the International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment. Appraisal tools were searched through April 2022.

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SUBMITTER: Jiu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10868255 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature