MOOSE Checklist 观察性meta分析正式版参考.doc

MOOSE Checklist for Meta-analyses of Observational Studies
Item No
Recommendation
Reported on Page No
Reporting of background should include
1
Problem definition
2
Hypothesis statement
3
Description of study outcome(s)
4
Type of exposure or intervention used
5
Type of study designs used
6
Study population
Reporting of search strategy should include
7
Qualifications of searchers (eg, librarians and investigators)
8
Search strategy, including time period included in the synthesis and key words
9
Effort to include all available studies, including contact with authors
10
Databases and registries searched
11
Search software used, name and version, including special features used (eg, explosion)
12
Use of hand searching (eg, reference lists of obtained articles)
13
List of citations located and those excluded, including justification
14
Method of addressing articles published in languages other than English
15
Method of handling abstracts and unpublished studies
16
Description of any contact with authors
Reporting of methods should include
17
Description of relevance or appropriateness of studies assembled for assessing the hypothesis to be tested
18
Rationale for the selection and coding of data (eg, sound clinical principles or convenience)
19
Documentation of how data were classified and coded (eg, m