Background The Quality of Reporting of Meta-analyses (QUOROM) conference was convened
to address standards for improving the quality of reporting of meta-analyses of clinical …

To comprehend the results of a randomised controlled trial (RCT), readers must understand
its design, conduct, analysis, and interpretation. That goal can be achieved only through …

Systematic reviews should build on a protocol that describes the rationale, hypothesis, and
planned methods of the review; few reviews report whether a protocol exists. Detailed, well-…

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have become increasingly important in health care.
Clinicians read them to keep up to date with their field, 1, 2 and they are often used as a …

Background Few meta-analyses of randomised trials assess the quality of the studies
included. Yet there is increasing evidence that trial quality can affect estimates of intervention …

Overwhelming evidence shows the quality of reporting of randomised controlled trials (RCTs)
is not optimal. Without transparent reporting, readers cannot judge the reliability and …

The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement,
published in 2009, was designed to help systematic reviewers transparently report why …

… IU/d) and higher-dose vitamin D (700-800 IU/d), separately. A vitamin D dose of 700 to 800
IU/d … No significant benefit was observed for RCTs with 400 IU/d vitamin D (2 RCTs with 3722 …

Background Systematic reviews (SRs) have become increasingly popular to a wide range
of stakeholders. We set out to capture a representative cross-sectional sample of published …

… Where more than one criterion is provided, we will use the HAM-D for judging the response
and then follow the sequence described above. Despite the problems surrounding scale-…