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Table 3 Map of available guidance for the conduct of overviews of reviews

From: Guidance for overviews of reviews continues to accumulate, but important challenges remain: a scoping review

Topic ARCHE KCE CSU CChile CHF CMIMG EPOC CPHG DukeU EPPI GCU HarvU JBI KCL NEST NOKC SUR TCD UBirm UConn UCyp UOxf WJNR WHU Frequency effect size (of 24)
Guidance related to the context of conducting an overview of reviews
 What types of questions can be answered using the overview format?      ✓ ✓    ✓   ✓   ✓    ✓ ✓   ✓    ✓    9
 Deciding between conducting an overview and a systematic review   ✓     ✓     ✓    ✓     ✓    ✓   ✓    7
 Items to consider before deciding to conduct an overview    ✓   ✓ ✓     ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓    ✓ ✓   ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓ 14
 Author team composition and roles      ✓ ✓    ✓     ✓     ✓ ✓   ✓    ✓   8
 Target audience of the overview      ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓     ✓ ✓    ✓   ✓ ✓ 13
Guidance related to the process of conducting an overview of reviews
 Developing and registering an overview protocol       ✓      ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓    ✓    ✓ ✓     8
 Specifying the scope      ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓    ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓    ✓   13
 Searching for systematic reviews (and potentially primary studies)   ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓    ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓ 18
 Selecting systematic reviews for inclusion (and potentially primary studies) ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 20
 Should an overview include non-Cochrane systematic reviews?      ✓ ✓     ✓    ✓             4
 Assessing the quality of included systematic reviews ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓   20
 Collecting and presenting data on descriptive characteristics of the included systematic reviews   ✓    ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓     ✓   ✓   ✓ ✓   ✓    ✓   11
 Collecting and presenting data on the quality of primary studies contained within the systematic reviews   ✓    ✓ ✓    ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓    ✓ ✓       ✓   10
 Collecting, analyzing, and presenting outcome data   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓ 21
 Assessing the certainty/quality of the body of evidence   ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓    ✓    ✓ ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓    ✓    ✓ 13
 Interpreting outcome data and drawing conclusions   ✓     ✓ ✓   ✓    ✓ ✓           ✓ ✓ 8
 Updating the overview       ✓      ✓       ✓         3
 Intensity effect size (of 17) 2 9 6 1 13 17 9 6 12 10 6 8 16 4 7 8 15 10 4 10 7 4 11 7  
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