Hello!
I am writing a systematic review. The results that I have obtained contains many types of study design like RCT, cross-sectional, cohorts, case-control, and case reports.
Can i use different types of quality assessment tools like CASP, Cochrane, JBI, to analyse the different types of studies that I have collected?
Thank you!
Yes, since you cannot exactly force one assessment tool specific for one study design on other study designs.
Yes absolutely, the tools are specific to study types and therefore designed to assess the different types of bias associated with these.
Equally, when synthesising the data, it is important to apply appropriate methods of data synthesis for each type of data, quantitative and qualitative. Ideally, these methods would be pre-specific in a protocol as some methods are capable of producing different results.
Section 1.3.5 Data synthesis in the CRD handbook can help: https://www.york.ac.uk/media/crd/Systematic_Reviews.pdf
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