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Mapping and systematic appraisal of umbrella reviews in epidemiological research: a protocol for a meta-epidemiological study

INTRODUCTION: Umbrella review is one of the terms used to describe an overview of systematic reviews. During the last years, a rapid increase in the number of umbrella reviews on epidemiological studies has been observed, but there is no systematic assessment of their methodological and reporting ch...

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Autores principales: Belbasis, Lazaros, Brooker, Robin D, Zavalis, Emmanuel, Pezzullo, Angelo Maria, Axfors, Cathrine, Ioannidis, John PA
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10347720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37452309
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02265-7
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author Belbasis, Lazaros
Brooker, Robin D
Zavalis, Emmanuel
Pezzullo, Angelo Maria
Axfors, Cathrine
Ioannidis, John PA
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description INTRODUCTION: Umbrella review is one of the terms used to describe an overview of systematic reviews. During the last years, a rapid increase in the number of umbrella reviews on epidemiological studies has been observed, but there is no systematic assessment of their methodological and reporting characteristics. Our study aims to fill this gap by performing a systematic mapping of umbrella reviews in epidemiological research. METHODS: We will perform a meta-epidemiological study including a systematic review in MEDLINE and EMBASE to identify all the umbrella reviews that focused on systematic reviews of epidemiological studies and were published from inception until December 31, 2022. We will consider eligible any research article which was designed as an umbrella review and summarized systematic reviews and meta-analyses of epidemiological studies. From each eligible article, we will extract information about the research topic, the methodological characteristics, and the reporting characteristics. We will examine whether the umbrella reviews assessed the strength of the available evidence and the rigor of the included systematic reviews. We will also examine whether these characteristics change across time. DISCUSSION: Our study will systematically appraise the methodological and reporting characteristics of published umbrella reviews in epidemiological literature. The findings of our study can be used to improve the design and conduct of future umbrella reviews, to derive a standardized set of reporting and methodological guidelines for umbrella reviews, and to allow further meta-epidemiological work. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: osf.io/sxzc6
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spelling pubmed-103477202023-07-15 Mapping and systematic appraisal of umbrella reviews in epidemiological research: a protocol for a meta-epidemiological study Belbasis, Lazaros Brooker, Robin D Zavalis, Emmanuel Pezzullo, Angelo Maria Axfors, Cathrine Ioannidis, John PA Syst Rev Protocol INTRODUCTION: Umbrella review is one of the terms used to describe an overview of systematic reviews. During the last years, a rapid increase in the number of umbrella reviews on epidemiological studies has been observed, but there is no systematic assessment of their methodological and reporting characteristics. Our study aims to fill this gap by performing a systematic mapping of umbrella reviews in epidemiological research. METHODS: We will perform a meta-epidemiological study including a systematic review in MEDLINE and EMBASE to identify all the umbrella reviews that focused on systematic reviews of epidemiological studies and were published from inception until December 31, 2022. We will consider eligible any research article which was designed as an umbrella review and summarized systematic reviews and meta-analyses of epidemiological studies. From each eligible article, we will extract information about the research topic, the methodological characteristics, and the reporting characteristics. We will examine whether the umbrella reviews assessed the strength of the available evidence and the rigor of the included systematic reviews. We will also examine whether these characteristics change across time. DISCUSSION: Our study will systematically appraise the methodological and reporting characteristics of published umbrella reviews in epidemiological literature. The findings of our study can be used to improve the design and conduct of future umbrella reviews, to derive a standardized set of reporting and methodological guidelines for umbrella reviews, and to allow further meta-epidemiological work. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: osf.io/sxzc6 BioMed Central 2023-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10347720/ /pubmed/37452309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02265-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Brooker, Robin D
Zavalis, Emmanuel
Pezzullo, Angelo Maria
Axfors, Cathrine
Ioannidis, John PA
Mapping and systematic appraisal of umbrella reviews in epidemiological research: a protocol for a meta-epidemiological study
title Mapping and systematic appraisal of umbrella reviews in epidemiological research: a protocol for a meta-epidemiological study
title_full Mapping and systematic appraisal of umbrella reviews in epidemiological research: a protocol for a meta-epidemiological study
title_fullStr Mapping and systematic appraisal of umbrella reviews in epidemiological research: a protocol for a meta-epidemiological study
title_full_unstemmed Mapping and systematic appraisal of umbrella reviews in epidemiological research: a protocol for a meta-epidemiological study
title_short Mapping and systematic appraisal of umbrella reviews in epidemiological research: a protocol for a meta-epidemiological study
title_sort mapping and systematic appraisal of umbrella reviews in epidemiological research: a protocol for a meta-epidemiological study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10347720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37452309
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02265-7
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