Evidence from RCT is considered as gold standard for therapeutic evaluation, we specifically evaluate the methodological quality of RCT in this review.
They apply 7 guidelines which include 38 items, in order to extensively evaluate the methodological quality of the studies and, also, establish guidelines for carrying out methodologically rigorous studies.
Armijo-Olivo, S., Fuentes, J., Ospina, M., Saltaji, H. & Hartling, L. Inconsistency in the items included in tools used in general health research and physical therapy to evaluate the methodological quality of randomized controlled trials: a descriptive analysis.
Thus, we propose to make a review with the aim to evaluate the methodological quality of clinical trials using pit and fissure sealants.
To overcome these limitations, we conducted an up-to-date overview of SRs to evaluate the methodological quality of SRs and meta-analyses of acupuncture for management of symptoms for palliative care of cancer and to describe the clinical evidence reported in these SRs and meta-analyses.
The purpose of this systematic review is to examine the efficacy of combined cognitive and exercise training in older adults with or without cognitive impairment and evaluate the methodological quality of the intervention studies.
The aims of the present study were to evaluate the methodological quality of published papers relative to chemotherapy or immunotherapy in malignant mesothelioma and to aggregate, for trials having a similar methodology, the response rates in order to identify the most active chemotherapeutic drugs and regimens.
To evaluate the methodological quality of the included studies the Dutch EBRO checklist for case-control studies was used, as all included studies had this design (http://netherlands.cochrane.org).org
One review author extracted data to evaluate the methodological quality of studies.
The secondary aim was to evaluate the methodological quality of these studies.
