critical appraisal in meta analysis hand-on

how to perform critical appraisal in systematic review and meta analysis

1. Full text screening and critical appraisal (Hands-on lecture) 06.12.2023

2. Screening in systematic reviews

3. Steps involved in full text screening Download full text articles (preferably in PDF format) Save all articles with some identifier in a folder Data extraction sheet: Structured, comprehensive and relevant Read one article at a time (tip: read methodology and results section) Don’t forget tables, figures and supplementary material!! Data extraction: enter the data as written in the text (don’t try to refine) As you exclude articles: give reasons for exclusion Once data extraction is complete, refine the data

4. Critical appraisal Ideally, first data extraction and then critical appraisal Tip: You can do both simultaneously JBI critical appraisal tools: Yes: 1 No: 0 Not sure: 0.5 How to decide: which are good quality and low quality studies?

5. Lets do the data extraction now!!