A PRISMA assessment of the reporting quality of systematic reviews of nursing published in the Cochrane Library and paper-based journals.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) was released as a standard of reporting systematic reviewers (SRs). However, not all SRs adhere completely to this standard. This study aimed to evaluate the reporting quality of SRs published in the Cochrane Library and paper-based journals.

Methods

The SRs which evaluate the effectiveness of nursing interventions in 2016 were identified via PubMed. The reporting quality of selected articles was evaluated using the PRISMA checklist. For comparison, we divided these articles into Cochrane review (CR) and non-Cochrane review (NCR). Based on the satisfaction of the applicable criteria, each article is assigned an accumulated score and a total percentage score.

Results

Overall, 41.7

SUBMITTER: Zhang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6919387 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature