Reported methodological quality of medical systematic reviews: Development of an assessment tool (ReMarQ) and meta-research study.

ABSTRACT: The number of published systematic reviews has increased over the last years, with a non-negligible proportion displaying methodological concerns. We aimed to develop and evaluate a tool to assess the reported methodological quality of medical systematic reviews. The developed tool (ReMarQ) consists of 26 dichotomous items. We applied an item response theory model to assess the difficulty and discrimination of the items and decision tree models to identify those items more capable of identifying systematic reviews with higher reported methodological quality. ReMarQ was applied to a representative sample of medical systematic reviews (excluding those published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews) to describe their methodological quality and identify associated factors. We

SUBMITTER: Marques-Cruz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12621523 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature