Research
A systematic evaluation of the quality of meta-analyses in the critical care literature
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* Corresponding author: Anthony Delaney adelaney@med.usyd.edu.au
1 Staff Specialist, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2 Fellow, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
3 Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
4 Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
5 Assistant Professor, Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
6 Associate Professor, Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Critical Care 2005, 9:R575-R582 doi:10.1186/cc3803
Published: 9 September 2005Additional files
Additional File 1:
Word file (doc) providing full details of the search strategy to Identify Meta-analyses pertinent to Critical Care Medicine.
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Additional File 2:
Word file (doc) providing full details of the OQAQ scoring questionnaire.
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Word file (doc) providing a full list of the references used in this study.
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Spreadsheet (xls) listing the quality assessment results for each individual meta-analysis included in this study.
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