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The use of one standard checklist for assessment of study quality in all diagnostic reviews should allow clinicians to make comparable assessment of different studies.
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3 4 In Nourhashemi and colleagues' study specialists used checklists for assessment and went through educational procedures with patients and caregivers.
The study benefits from its use of structured checklists for assessments of study quality.
Finally, the study benefits from its thorough reporting process and use of structured checklists for assessments of study quality.
Studies were assessed by an abbreviated synthesis of two recent quality checklists for health economic evaluations – the Consensus Health Economic Criteria CHECC) list [ 3] and a checklist for quality assessment in decision-analytic models developed for health technology assessment by Philips et al. [ 4].
Quality of papers was assessed using the Downs & Black's checklist for the assessment of the methodological quality both of randomized and non-randomized studies of health care interventions, which systematically assesses quality of reporting on issues ranging from research aims, power calculations, intervention, and outcome instruments [ 35].
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].
Other checklists were tested (e.g., Philips et al. [12]) but, for the study question here, the PQAQ was considered as the most appropriate checklist for quality assessment.
All relevant articles were examined for full methodological quality using a modified version of the Downs and Black [55] checklist for the assessment of the methodological quality of randomized and non-randomized studies of health care interventions.
The International Patient Decision Aid Standards IPDASS) Collaboration produced a checklist for the assessment of DSTs [11].
A checklist for the assessment of the skill being examined at that station.
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