I am performing a systematic review and the majority of published papers are case reports. In the same way we use the Newcastle-Ottawa scale (NOS) to evaluate the methodological design quality of observational studies, what is recommended to assess the quality of published case reports?
Recommended by who?
The NIH propose this tool:
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/study-quality-assessment-tools
You can also look at these recent papers:
Methodological quality and synthesis of case series and case reports. Murad et al. 2017.
Methodological quality of case series studies: an introduction to the JBI critical appraisal tool. Munn et al. 2019
You can use CARE checklist (The CARE Guidelines: Consensus-based Clinical Care Reporting Guideline Development). You can search under EQUATOR NETWORK website
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