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Evaluation of the completeness of intervention reporting in Cochrane surgical systematic reviews using the TIDieR-SR checklist: a cross-sectional study
  1. Matt Vassar1,
  2. Matthew J Page2,
  3. James Glasbey3,
  4. Craig Cooper1,
  5. Austin Jorski1,
  6. Jessica Sosio4,
  7. Cole Wayant1
  1. 1 Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
  2. 2 School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
  3. 3 Academic Department of Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  4. 4 Medical Student Research, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
  1. Correspondence to Cole Wayant, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, OK 74107, USA; cole.wayant{at}okstate.edu

Abstract

Introduction Complete reporting of systematic reviews of interventions is essential to the interpretation of research findings and the reproducibility of research results. The Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist—and the version specific to systematic reviews (TIDieR-SR)—was created to provide authors and researchers an evidence-based guide for reporting trial and systematic review interventions. In this study, we apply TIDieR-SR to Cochrane systematic reviews of surgical interventions.

Methods We searched the Cochrane Database for relevant systematic reviews. Two investigators applied inclusion/exclusion criteria to all titles/abstracts and full texts. These same investigators extracted all data in duplicate while masked to the other’s data. The primary outcome was adherence to TIDieR-SR items.

Results Two hundred and thirty-eight systematic reviews were included. Overall, included SRs adhered to a median of 6 (IQR 5–7) out of eight TIDieR-SR items. The item with the lowest adherence was item 7 (share intervention materials, 1/238 (0.4%).

Discussion Our results are encouraging, but the generalisability of our findings is compromised by the inclusion of only Cochrane systematic reviews. Future reporting of intervention materials is likely to improve the application of effective surgical interventions in the clinical practice.

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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2020-111417

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    • Contributors MV, MJP and JG conceptualised the study. MJP and CW conducted all database searches. CC and AJ screened all studies for inclusion. CC, AJ and JS extracted all data. CW conducted all analyses. All authors contributed to writing the manuscript and approve of its final form.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent for publication Not required.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

    • Data availability statement Data are available in a public, open access repository. Our protocol, data and source code are available via the Open Science Framework (DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/NGCTY).