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In order to be more relevant to public health, an appropriate quality appraisal tool needs to be less reliant on the evidence hierarchy and consider practice applicability.
The QUIPS tool was considered the most appropriate quality appraisal tool because, conceptually, the frailty index is a prognostic instrument.
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Studies and study results can initially be ranked by study design (evidence level) using the revised evidence hierarchy, and then be further ranked within each evidence level with the use of appropriate and validated quality appraisal checklists.
What is the most appropriate role, if any, for quality appraisal of primary studies in meta-ethnography?
This quality appraisal tool seems appropriate as it was designed to appraise complex literature reviews consisting of qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods studies.
There are opposing thoughts on whether quality appraisal of qualitative research is appropriate.
Further, because of the problem with the interpretation of the term "justified" or "appropriate", it might be difficult to use these four quality appraisal instruments in a straightforward manner.
Following the identification and quality appraisal, included studies will be synthesised (via appropriate methods including narrative synthesis, meta-analysis and thematic synthesis).
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].
Comparison with a control group of some nature was necessary for inclusion, and although most of the identified studies did consist of randomised or cluster randomised control trials, other designs were not excluded, and the relevant quality appraisal criteria for the different designs were used as appropriate (table 1).
Quality appraisal is performed on a case-by-case basis, as appropriate to the method utilised in the original study.
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