Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2024 Jul 9;22(1):48. doi: 10.1186/s12955-024-02256-9.
Although comprehensive and widespread guidelines on how to conduct systematic reviews of outcome measurement instruments (OMIs) exist, for example from the COSMIN (COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments) initiative, key information is often missing in published reports. This article describes the development of an extension of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2020 guideline: PRISMA-COSMIN for OMIs 2024.
The development process followed the Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research (EQUATOR) guidelines and included a literature search, expert consultations, a Delphi study, a hybrid workgroup meeting, pilot testing, and an end-of-project meeting, with integrated patient/public involvement.
From the literature and expert consultation, 49 potentially relevant reporting items were identified. Round 1 of the Delphi study was completed by 103 panelists, whereas round 2 and 3 were completed by 78 panelists. After 3 rounds, agreement (≥ 67%) on inclusion and wording was reached for 44 items. Eleven items without consensus for inclusion and/or wording were discussed at a workgroup meeting attended by 24 participants. Agreement was reached for the inclusion and wording of 10 items, and the deletion of 1 item. Pilot testing with 65 authors of OMI systematic reviews further improved the guideline through minor changes in wording and structure, finalized during the end-of-project meeting. The final checklist to facilitate the reporting of full systematic review reports contains 54 (sub)items addressing the review's title, abstract, plain language summary, open science, introduction, methods, results, and discussion. Thirteen items pertaining to the title and abstract are also included in a separate abstract checklist, guiding authors in reporting for example conference abstracts.
PRISMA-COSMIN for OMIs 2024 consists of two checklists (full reports; abstracts), their corresponding explanation and elaboration documents detailing the rationale and examples for each item, and a data flow diagram. PRISMA-COSMIN for OMIs 2024 can improve the reporting of systematic reviews of OMIs, fostering their reproducibility and allowing end-users to appraise the quality of OMIs and select the most appropriate OMI for a specific application. NOTE: In order to encourage its wide dissemination this article is freely accessible on the web sites of the journals: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes; Journal of Clinical Epidemiology; Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes; Quality of Life Research.
尽管关于如何进行结局测量工具（OMI）系统评价的全面、广泛的指南已经存在，例如来自 COSMIN（COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments）倡议的指南，但在已发表的报告中，往往会缺少关键信息。本文描述了对系统评价和荟萃分析的首选报告项目（PRISMA）2020 指南的扩展：用于 2024 年 OMI 的 PRISMA-COSMIN 的制定过程。
该开发过程遵循增强健康研究质量和透明度（EQUATOR）指南，并包括文献检索、专家咨询、德尔菲研究、混合工作组会议、试点测试和项目结束会议，同时纳入了患者/公众的参与。
从文献和专家咨询中，确定了 49 个潜在相关的报告项目。德尔菲研究第一轮有 103 名专家参与，第二轮和第三轮有 78 名专家参与。经过 3 轮，有 44 个项目达成了纳入和措辞的共识（≥67%）。11 个项目未达成纳入和/或措辞的共识，在由 24 名参与者参加的工作组会议上进行了讨论。10 个项目的纳入和措辞达成了共识，删除了 1 个项目。对 65 名 OMI 系统评价作者进行的试点测试通过对措辞和结构进行细微的更改，进一步完善了指南，并在项目结束会议上定稿。最终的核对清单可促进全面系统评价报告的报告，其中包含 54 个（子）项目，涵盖了综述的标题、摘要、通俗易懂的摘要、开放科学、引言、方法、结果和讨论。13 个与标题和摘要相关的项目也包含在单独的摘要核对清单中，指导作者报告例如会议摘要。
用于 2024 年 OMI 的 PRISMA-COSMIN 由两个核对清单（完整报告；摘要）、它们相应的解释和阐述文件组成，详细说明了每个项目的基本原理和示例，以及一个数据流程图。用于 2024 年 OMI 的 PRISMA-COSMIN 可以提高 OMI 系统评价的报告质量，促进其可重复性，并使最终用户能够评估 OMI 的质量，并为特定应用选择最合适的 OMI。
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