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A systematic evaluation of the quality of meta-analyses in the critical care literature

Anthony Delaney1 email, Sean M Bagshaw2 email, Andre Ferland3, Braden Manns4, Kevin B Laupland5 and Christopher J Doig6

1Staff Specialist, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2Fellow, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

3Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

4Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

5Assistant Professor, Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

6Associate Professor, Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Critical Care 2005, 9:R575-R582doi:10.1186/cc3803

Published: 9 September 2005

Additional 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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Additional File 3:

Word file (doc) providing a full list of the references used in this study.

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Additional File 4:

Spreadsheet (xls) listing the quality assessment results for each individual meta-analysis included in this study.

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