AC took the lead role in reviewing the quality of intervention publications and drafted the paper.
We developed a ready-to-use, valid and reliable critical appraisal instrument applicable to healthcare QI intervention publications, but recognise scope for continuing refinement.
The QI-MQCS includes 16 content domains to evaluate QI intervention publications: Organisational Motivation, Intervention Rationale, Intervention Description, Organisational Characteristics, Implementation, Study Design, Comparator Description, Data Sources, Timing, Adherence/Fidelity, Health Outcomes, Organisational Readiness, Penetration/Reach, Sustainability, Spread and Limitations.
21 Funnel plot asymmetry can emanate from real inconsistency of effects of interventions; publication and other biases (eg, selective outcome reporting), poor methodological quality (poor methodological design, inadequate analysis, fraud) or chance.
We developed a ready-to-use, valid and reliable critical appraisal instrument applicable to a wide range of healthcare QI intervention evaluation publications, but recognise scope for continuing refinement.
In addition to these personalised approaches and reminders, all correspondence emphasised the importance of participation (supporting obesity prevention), as well as the benefits for the respondent (e.g. publicity for their intervention through publication in the online WebAtlas [ 19]).
Blair, frustrated by the repeated delays in the production of the report, has been meeting his allies to discuss his response, but is not planning to make any speech or intervention before publication on 6 July.
Intervention type, publication type, and population type were not significant moderators but demonstrated noteworthy trends.
This is in keeping with the generally poor quality of descriptions of complex interventions in publications more generally.
For the meta-analysis of placebo-controlled studies on the administration of rFVIIa in connection with surgical interventions, eight publications were identified, and in these a total of 285 patients received placebo and 555 patients received rFVIIa (Table 5).
Web appendix 8 shows the detailed methods, 28 along with descriptions of each PUFA intervention trial, publication bias assessment, heterogeneity analyses, pooled risk estimates for mortality outcomes, and sensitivity analyses.
