MOOSE: Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology: a proposal for reporting. Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) group (2000)
PRISMA: Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement (2009)
Thanks very much for your appreciable detail response. The explanation really clarified a lot of confused things.
Except using that guidelines reporting a Meta-analysis, you also need some questionnaires to evaluate each articles of your meta-analysis. There are multiple questionnaires could be used, and you should choose an appropriated one for you study. I am sorry that I cannot give you more information about that because I do not know what kinds of articles in your study.
I used o the 9-star Newcastle-Ottawa Scale of my study. You could see the article by the link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3904848/pdf/pone.0086086.pdf
Hope this helps!
Thanks Mr. Tau Bu for your response. I guess you are stating about the 'assessment of risk of bias' scale. Yes, I agree with you. For my meta-analysis, I am also using the 9-star Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for the Case-control studies.
Ms. Beyer gave a very substantial answer and we do share similar insights with regard to your question. Mr. Md Asiful Islam, If I may ask, how to rate hospital-based case-control study using the 9-star NOS? Thank you.
I used Cochrane Back and Neck (CBN) Group, i.e. Furlan and Moga tools, for assessing the risk of bias of eligible RCTs and uncontrolled studies, respectively.
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