Choosing important health outcomes for comparative effectiveness research: 6th annual update to a systematic review of core outcome sets for research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An annual update to a systematic review of core outcome sets (COS) for research ensures that the COMET database is up-to-date. The aims of this study were to: (i) identify COS that were published or indexed in 2019 and to describe the methodological approaches used in these studies; (ii) investigate whether children have been included as participants in published COS development studies, and which methods have been used to facilitate their participation; iii) update a previous exercise to identify COS relevant to the most burdensome global diseases and injuries.

Methods

MEDLINE and SCOPUS were searched to identify studies published or indexed between (and inclusive of) January 2019 and December 2019. Automated screening methods were used to rank the citations in o

SUBMITTER: Gargon E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7802923 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature