Hello, just as the title says I want to choose a scale to assess the methodological quality of the studies included in my meta-analysis. Which one you would use and why? Pros/Cons?
Dear Georgios
PRISMA is a reporting guideline for systematic reviews - and could there for not be used for risk of bias evaluating of the studies.
Which risk of bias tool you should use depend on the design of the included studies. As you suggest PEDRO my answer is restricted to RCT – and yes PEDRO is a risk of bias tool for RCT – however the Cochrane Risk of bias tool is preferable and is thoroughly described in the Cochrane Handbook. The revised ROB2 is the recommended tool for evaluating risk of bias in RCT see https://methods.cochrane.org/bias/resources/rob-2-revised-cochrane-risk-bias-tool-randomized-trials
Best Carsten
PRISMA as it's well established, validated and well known among researchers and reviewers alike.
Dear Georgios
PRISMA is a reporting guideline for systematic reviews - and could there for not be used for risk of bias evaluating of the studies.
Which risk of bias tool you should use depend on the design of the included studies. As you suggest PEDRO my answer is restricted to RCT – and yes PEDRO is a risk of bias tool for RCT – however the Cochrane Risk of bias tool is preferable and is thoroughly described in the Cochrane Handbook. The revised ROB2 is the recommended tool for evaluating risk of bias in RCT see https://methods.cochrane.org/bias/resources/rob-2-revised-cochrane-risk-bias-tool-randomized-trials
Best Carsten
As you'll performed a meta-analysis, you may used PRSIMA guidelines (PICOS, reporting), and PEDro to evaluate articles' quality. If the articles included in meta-analysis were not physical therapy-related, I recommend Downs and Black scale.
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