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Table 4 Map of methodological guidance for conducting overviews

From: What guidance is available for researchers conducting overviews of reviews of healthcare interventions? A scoping review and qualitative metasummary

Topic area

CHF

CMIMG

CPHG

DukeU

EPOC

EPPI

JBI

NOKC

TCD

UBirm

WHU

WJNR

Frequency effect size

Guidance related to the context for conducting overviews (i.e., when and why should you conduct an overview?)

 Choosing between conducting an overview and a SR

 

✓

   

✓

      

2/12

 What types of questions about healthcare interventions can be answered using the overview format?

✓

✓

 

✓

  

✓

✓

✓

✓

  

7/12

 Questions to consider before deciding to conduct an overview

✓

✓

   

✓

✓

 

✓

  

✓

6/12

 Author team composition and roles

✓

✓

    

✓

    

✓

4/12

 Target audience of the overview

✓

✓

 

✓

✓

✓

  

✓

 

✓

✓

8/12

Guidance related to the process of conducting overviews (i.e., how do you conduct an overview?)

 Specifying the scope

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

  

✓

10/12

 Searching for SRs

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

 

✓

✓

11/12

 Selecting SRs for inclusion

✓

✓

 

✓

✓

  

✓

✓

   

6/12

 Should an overview include non-Cochrane SRs?

✓

✓

 

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

 

✓

 

9/12

 Assessing quality of included SRs

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

12/12

 Collecting and presenting data on descriptive characteristics of included SRs (and their primary studies)

✓

✓

  

✓

 

✓

 

✓

  

✓

6/12

 Collecting and presenting data on quality of primary studies contained within included SRs

✓

✓

 

✓

 

✓

✓

✓

   

✓

7/12

 Collecting, analyzing, and presenting outcome data

✓

✓

 

✓

✓

✓

✓

  

✓

  

7/12

 Assessing quality of evidence of outcome data

✓

✓

   

✓

✓

✓

✓

   

6/12

 Interpreting outcome data and drawing conclusions

 

✓

   

✓

    

✓

 

3/12

 Intensity effect size

13/15

15/15

3/15

9/15

8/15

11/15

11/15

8/15

10/15

3/15

5/15

8/15