Report in English with a French summary - KCE

48 Spine technology KCE reports vol.39
Table 3 : Systematic reviews
Cochrane checklist Taylor Newton Merlin Hendrikse Levine
2006
2006
2006
2003
2000
Adequate research question? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Adequately performed search? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Adequate selection of articles? Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Adequate quality appraisal of articles? Yes ? ? Yes No
Adequate description of the data extraction procedure? Yes No No No No
Description of the most important characteristics of the included articles? Yes No No Yes Yes
Adequate handling of clinical and statistical heterogeneity? Yes ? ? No No
Adequate statistical pooling? Yes ? ? No No
Overall appraisal Good Fair Fair Fair Poor
Table 4 : Non-randomized controlled trials
Cochrane checklist Komp 2004 Grafe 2005 Grohs 2005 Pflugmacher 2005 Diamond 2006
Randomization? NA NA NA NA NA
Blinding of randomization? NA NA NA NA NA
Blinding of patients? No No No No No
Blinding of care provider? No No No No No
Blinding of outcome assessor? ? No Yes ? Partly
Similar groups at baseline? ? Yes Yes ? Yes
Follow-up long enough? No ? Yes Yes Yes
Intention-to-treat-analysis? ? Yes ? ? Yes
Comparable treatment of groups? Yes Yes ? Yes Yes
Overall appraisal Poor Poor Poor Poor Poor