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The STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) checklist was supplemented with a survey appraisal checklist in order to appraise the methodological quality of the full range of study types [ 7, 8].
This study's intent was to develop and validate a quality appraisal checklist specifically for case-series studies.
Some unique items of the Hungarian Critical Appraisal Checklist should be highlighted.
Validity was assessed independently by two reviewers using a standard critical appraisal checklist.
Critical appraisal refers to reading and interpreting a research article, while simultaneously using a critical appraisal checklist.
Additionally, the studies varied in methodological quality and none received a high score on the Study Quality Appraisal Checklist.
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The remaining papers were appraised using relevant appraisal checklists for the type of study under consideration, following which 16 papers were excluded.
Suggested criteria for appraising quality vary considerably [ 4], and appraisal checklists do not seem to produce consistent judgements [ 3].
CASP has released critical appraisal checklists for different types of research studies that cover three main areas of a study: validity, results, and clinical relevance [45].
Several checklists were tested (e.g., Philips et al. [12]) but, for the study question here, the Pediatric Quality Appraisal Questionnaire (PQAQ) was considered to be the most appropriate checklist for quality assessment, as it was developed from the established appraisal checklists and specially constructed for application in assessing the quality of measures for the pediatric population [13].
Additional file 2: Appraisal Checklists.
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