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2.2.2 Selection criteria
HTA (Health Technology Assessment) reports and systematic reviews were selected
according to the following criteria:
P: patients suffering from any condition
I: homeopathy
C: any comparison: alternative intervention, placebo
O: patient relevant outcomes, such as mortality, morbidity, quality of life
D: HTA reports or systematic reviews
Exclusion criteria:
Narrative reviews, editorials, letters, primary studies, economic evaluations. Only
publications in English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish or Portuguese were eligible for
inclusion in the present report. Other languages were thus excluded. Search date of the
review ending before the year 2000.
2.2.3 Quality assessment.
The quality of systematic reviews was assessed using the checklist developed by the
Dutch Cochrane collaboration b . The following 8 items listed are: adequate research
question, adequate literature search, adequate selection, adequate quality appraisal,
adequate data-extraction, characteristics primary studies, adequate handling of clinical
and statistical heterogeneity, correct statistical pooling. In the table they are numbered
from 1 to 8.
In addition, when several systematic reviews were available on a specific sub-topic, the
findings of the systematic review with the highest quality rating, most recent literature
search or most comprehensive scope (in that order of importance) were reported and
were compared with the results of the other systematic reviews on that topic
2.3 RESULTS
2.3.1 Reports and papers found
The number of papers found initially and selected in the end are given in figure one.
Evaluation of the studies is given in table 1.
b https://www.cebp.nl/media/m242.pdf