I am writing up a systematic review article and wish to know any method I can use to analyse/assess statistically the quality of population recruited by the studies in my review.
Hi Victor, Cochrane and the PRISMA statements lay out some guidance in this area. You can take a look at:
http://handbook.cochrane.org/chapter_8/8_3_1_types_of_tools.htm
and http://www.prisma-statement.org/statement.htm
All the best
Hi Primrose, thanks for your response. Its really informative.
However, I am wondering whether I can apply any statistical method to evaluate the variations//quality of sample sizes of all the studies in my review in relation to how it affects individual prevalence results. Can you advise further?
Hi Victor
Are you doing systematic review or Systematic review and Meta-Analysis
if yours is only Systematic review no need to do Analysis. there is no statistical analysis for systematic review if your didn't include meta analysis. But You can do methodological quality assessment by giving stars and Numbers Up to max 9 points usually score below 5 is taken us poor quality study. There are two options
If you are using observational studies use The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS)
www.lri.ca
If you are reviewing Randomized trails use the suggestion given above by my sister
Hi Fekadu,
Thanks for your response. The suggested NOS is really helpful. Cheers
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