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Table 6 Comparison of the overall quality of reports of meta-analyses in the emergency medicine, anaesthesia and critical care literature

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

 

Emergency medicine

Anaesthesia

General surgery

Critical care

Mean overall OQAQ score (95% CI)

2.7 (2.1–3.2)

4.3 (3.8–4.7)

3.3 (2.8–3.9)

3.3 (3.0–3.6)

Proportion of reports with an overall OQAQ score ≥5 (95% CI)

13.8 (3.9–31.6)

41.5 (30.7–52.9)

25.5 (14.3–39.6)

30.9 (23.4–39.3)