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Table 2 Assessment of methodological quality including proportion of secondary breast cancer patients included, quality rating, GRADE rating and overall study weighting (n = 19)

From: Geographic and sociodemographic access to systemic anticancer therapies for secondary breast cancer: a systematic review

No

Author (year)

Sample size (% of SBC patients) included

Quality ratinga

GRADE ratingb

Overall study weightingc

1

Accordino et al. (2017) [26]

4251/4521 (100)

Moderate

Moderate

1

2

Alves et al. (2022) [33]

296/2525 (12%)

Low

Low

3

3

Cole et al. (2019) [34]

65,380/601,680 (11)

Moderate

Moderate

2

4

Falchook et al. (2017) [35]

5855/28,731 (20)

Moderate

Moderate

2

5

Ferreira et al. (2020) [36]

10,816/151,931 (7)

Low

Low

3

6

Giap et al. (2023) [27]

60,685/60,685 (100)

Moderate

Moderate

2

7

Ozmen et al. (2015) [37]

29/1031 (3)

Low

Low

3

8

Recondo et al. (2019) [38]

268/13 (5)

Low–moderate

Low–moderate

3

9

Sathe et al. (2023) [28]

6082/6082 (100)

Moderate

Moderate

1

10

Shih et al. (2009) [39]

42,804/207,581 (21)

Moderate

Moderate

2

11

Shiovitz et al. (2015) [40]

3583/76,259 (5)

Moderate

Moderate

2

12

Skinner et al. (2021) [32]

608/608 (100)

Moderate

Moderate

2

13

Small et al. (2012) [41]

57,148/773,233 (7)

Moderate

Moderate

1

14

Statler et al. (2019) [30]

6234/6234 (100)

Moderate

Moderate

1

15

Vas Luiz et al. (2015) [31]

4364/4364 (100)

Moderate

Moderate

2

16

Vyas et al. (2021) [5]

1089/1089 (100)

Moderate

Moderate

1

17

Wan & Jubelirer (2015) [35]

4533/4533 (100)

Moderate

Moderate

1

18

Wang & Du (2015) [42]

1100/25,128 (4)

Low–moderate

Low–moderate

3

19

Wolfson et al. (2015) [43]

1441/75,987 (4)

Low–moderate

Low–moderate

3

  1. aJoanna Briggs Institute assessment of methodological quality [24, 25]
  2. bGRADE quality rating [26]. Low, true effect might be markedly different from the estimated effect. Moderate, true effect is probably close to the estimated effect
  3. cOverall study weighting for contribution to narrative synthesis
  4. 1 = High
  5. 2 = Moderate
  6. 3 = Low