Assessment of the Risk of Bias in Rehabilitation Reviews

Autor/inn/en	Farmer, Sybil E.; Wood, Duncan; Swain, Ian D.; Pandyan, Anand D.
Titel	Assessment of the Risk of Bias in Rehabilitation Reviews
Quelle	In: International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 35 (2012) 4, S.317-322 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0342-5282
DOI	10.1097/MRR.0b013e3283559b6b
Schlagwörter	Outcome Measures; Interrater Reliability; Questionnaires; Literature Reviews; State of the Art Reviews; Bias; Risk; Rehabilitation; Educational Research; Evaluation Problems; Robustness (Statistics); Journal Articles; Research Reports; Evaluation Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interrater-Reliabilität; Fragebogen; Entwicklungsstand; Risiko; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Widerstandsfähigkeit; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Research report; Forschungsbericht
Abstract	Systematic reviews are used to inform practice, and develop guidelines and protocols. A questionnaire to quantify the risk of bias in systematic reviews, the review paper assessment (RPA) tool, was developed and tested. A search of electronic databases provided a data set of review articles that were then independently reviewed by two assessors using the RPA. The inter-rater reliability was between moderate and good ([kappa] scores 0.46-0.95). Many reviews did not describe the purpose in terms of population, intervention, comparator and outcome measure (i.e. PICO format), making inter-rater agreement on this question difficult. The RPA discriminated between high-quality reviews and those with a risk of bias (e.g. inadequate reporting of search terms, lack of independent reviewing or inclusion of non-randomized-controlled trials). The RPA questionnaire was revised to ensure that questions (on the basis of clarity of purpose, extent of search, independence of reviewers, randomized-controlled trial inclusion and availability of data) had dichotomous answers so that the positive responses scored one. The risk of bias increases as the score reduces. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10