Reply to letter to the editor by Franco et al. AMSTAR 2 overall confidence rating: A call for even more transparency

[3], these items were suggested as critical items for the overall rating. [...]the AMSTAR 2 scheme on the website with four critical items seems to be incongruent with the “seven critical items scheme,” as suggested by Shea et al. [...]we strongly encourage the website hosts to make their scheme tra...

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Published in:Journal of clinical epidemiology 2021-10, Vol.138, p.241-242
Main Authors: Lorenz, Robert C., Pieper, Dawid, Rombey, Tanja, Jacobs, Anja, Rissling, Olesja, Freitag, Simone, Matthias, Katja
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Language:English
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Summary:[3], these items were suggested as critical items for the overall rating. [...]the AMSTAR 2 scheme on the website with four critical items seems to be incongruent with the “seven critical items scheme,” as suggested by Shea et al. [...]we strongly encourage the website hosts to make their scheme transparent. The presence of “multiple non-critical weaknesses,“, i.e., more than one negative evaluation in a non-critical item, may lead to a devaluation from an overall rating of “moderate,” to “low,” quality.
ISSN:0895-4356
1878-5921
DOI:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.03.016