Only half of the authors of overviews of exercise-related interventions use some strategy to manage overlapping primary studies-a metaresearch study
Gutierrez-Arias, Ruvistay (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Pediatria, Obstetrícia i Ginecologia i de Medicina Preventiva i Salut Pública)
Pieper, Dawid (Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane (Alemanya))
Lunny, Carole (University of Toronto)
Torres-Castro, Rodrigo (Universidad de Chile)
Aguilera, Raúl (Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción)
Oliveros, María Jose (Universidad de La Frontera (Xile))
Seron, Pamela (Universidad de La Frontera (Xile))

Data:	2024
Resum:	The conduct of systematic reviews (SRs) and overviews share several similarities. However, because the unit of analysis for overviews is the SRs, there are some unique challenges. One of the most critical issues to manage when conducting an overview is the overlap of data across the primary studies included in the SRs. This metaresearch study aimed to describe the frequency of strategies to manage the overlap in overviews of exercise-related interventions. A systematic search in MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), Cochrane Library, Epistemonikos, and other sources was conducted from inception to June 2022. We included overviews of SRs that considered primary studies and evaluated the effectiveness of exercise-related interventions for any health condition. The overviews were screened by two authors independently, and the extraction was performed by one author and checked by a second. We found 353 overviews published between 2005 and 2022 that met the inclusion criteria. One hundred and sixty-four overviews (46%) used at least one strategy to visualize, quantify, or resolve overlap, with a matrix (32/164; 20%), absolute frequency (34/164; 21%), and authors' algorithms (24/164; 15%) being the most used methods, respectively. From 2016 onwards, there has been a trend toward increasing the use of some strategies to manage overlap. Of the 108 overviews that used some strategy to resolve the overlap, ie, avoiding double or multiple counting of primary study data, 79 (73%) succeeded. In overviews where no strategies to manage overlap were reported (n = 189/353; 54%), 16 overview authors (8%) recognized this as a study limitation. Although there is a trend toward increasing its use, only half of the authors of the overviews of exercise-related interventions used a strategy to visualize, quantify, or resolve overlap in the primary studies' data. In the future, authors should report such strategies to communicate more valid results.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Exercise ; Overlap ; Overviews of systematic reviews ; Rehabilitation ; Review methods ; Umbrella review
Publicat a:	Journal of clinical epidemiology, Vol. 170 (june 2024) , p. 111328, ISSN 1878-5921

DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111328
PMID: 38513993

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