Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Research Protocols
Date Submitted: Jan 15, 2020
Date Accepted: Mar 17, 2020
Outcomes Reported in Published Systematic Reviews of Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment: Protocol for a Systematic Overview
ABSTRACT
Background:
Interdisciplinary pain treatment (IPT) is a complex intervention with a great diversity of the selected outcomes and methodologies for handling these multiple outcomes. This may hamper the evidence-based decision making. Presently, there is no gold standard recommendation of how to select the reported outcomes in the published systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses (MAs) to explicitly demonstrate the IPT effectiveness.
Objective:
In this systematic overview we aimed to evaluate the reported outcomes domains and measurements across published SRs and MAs and to identify if there is any method, considerations and discussion for handling the chosen outcomes domains and measurements.
Methods:
This article describes the protocol for a systematic overview of the outcomes reported in the published SRs and MAs of randomised control trials (RCTs) for the effectiveness of IPT versus any control. To this end, we will search PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Epistemonikos from inception up to December 2019. Two independent investigators will screen the titles, the abstracts of the identified records, and the full texts of the potentially eligible SRs and MAs, perform data extraction according to predefined forms and rate the quality of included SRs and MAs. The quality of included SRs and MAs will be rated with AMSTAR-2. Data will be analysed descriptively stratified by AMSTAR-2.
Results:
We have introduced the rationale and design of a systematic overview to summarize and map the chosen IPT outcomes domains and methods of handling these outcomes reported in the published SRs and MAs.As of December 2019, we collected 3689 SRs and MAs which 112 of them are examined for depth eligibility. Toplined results are anticipated by September 2020.
Conclusions:
The results of this study will be published as soon as they are available. Our results will fill a gap in the related literature.
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