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Review methods
Question V: Can mortality or morbidity be reduced
following screening?
These studies were also appraised using the
USPSTF quality appraisal framework34 and the
Jadad score. 35
Question VI: Is a partner violence screening
programme acceptable to health professionals and
the public?
In accordance with our assessment of the
methodological quality of studies included
under Question III, we once again used the
STROBE checklist 30 to appraise the quality of the
quantitative studies and the CASP tool 31 to appraise
the qualitative studies we included. Sensitivity
analyses of those studies that ranked in the upper
quartiles for methodological quality were also
performed.
Question VII: Is screening for partner violence costeffective?
We did not find any studies that fulfilled our
inclusion criteria.
Application of
review evidence to
National Screening
Committee criteria
Once the review was completed, its findings were
summarised in relation to NSC criteria. The
research group systematically considered each of
these criteria against the review evidence using
informal consensus to judge the extent to which the
criteria were fulfilled. As noted in our proposal, the
timescale of the review did not allow engagement
with an external reference group. We did present
our initial findings to a meeting of the National
Domestic Violence and Health Research Forum.
These findings and the design of the reviews were
discussed by the Forum. There were no specific
suggestions for further searching or analysis;
comments on the questionable applicability of
the NSC criteria to domestic violence screening
informs our discussion of this issue in Chapter 11.
We approached Health Ending Violence and Abuse
Now (HEVAN), the domestic violence practitioners’
forum (Loraine Bacchus was secretary of the
group), but no meeting was possible within the
timescale of the review.