The state of asthma epidemiology: an overview of systematic reviews and their quality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recently, we have published an overview of systematic reviews in allergy epidemiology and identified asthma as the most commonly reviewed allergic disease. Building on this work, we aimed to investigate the quality of systematic reviews in asthma using the AMSTAR checklist and to provide a reference for future, more in-depth assessment of the extent of previous knowledge.

Methods

We included all 307 systematic reviews indexed with asthma, including occupational asthma, and/or wheeze from our previous search in PubMed and EMBASE up to December 2014 for systematic reviews on epidemiological research on allergic diseases. Topics of the included systematic reviews were indexed and we applied the AMSTAR checklist for methodological quality to all. Statistical analyses

SUBMITTER: Genuneit J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5387188 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature