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ArticleBMJ medicine2024

Assessing the methodological quality and risk of bias of systematic reviews: primer for authors of overviews of systematic reviews.

Carole Lunny, Salmaan Kanji, Pierre Thabet, Anna-Bettina Haidich, Konstantinos I Bougioukas, Dawid Pieper

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Article in BMJ medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Association Between Periodontitis and Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia: An Umbrella Review With Evidence Stratification.Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Carole LunnyKnowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7825-6765
Salmaan KanjiOttawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Pierre ThabetSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Ottawa, Hôpital Montfort, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Anna-Bettina HaidichDepartment of Hygiene, Social-Preventive Medicine and Medical Statistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Faculty of Health Sciences, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece.
Konstantinos I BougioukasDepartment of Hygiene, Social-Preventive Medicine and Medical Statistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Faculty of Health Sciences, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece.
Dawid PieperFaculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane Ruppin Clinics, Neuruppin, Brandenburg, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID38826514
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