What quality assessment tools are available for a meta-analysis when the papers contain case-control, cohort, x-sectional, prospective designs?
There are a lot. The US-NIH's NHLBI has a compilation that you may consider depending on study design of included studies in your review: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/study-quality-assessment-tools
This recent review is a great overview of existing tools as well:Article Methodological quality (risk of bias) assessment tools for p...
Good luck!
You should do a quality assessment on each study based on their study design, not pooling them all at once with one quality assessment tool, IF you intended to assess based on their intended study design.
Dear Kenny Chiu, thanks for the question. In fact, there is a various risk of bais assessment (ROB) tools, in which most of them were developed for specific types of design. However, Stone et al, have developed a comprehensive ROB tool that fits the whole types of design (experimental and observational) except cross-sectional design. You may want to check it in the link below:
Article The MethodologicAl STandards for Epidemiological Research (M...
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