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Should We Exclude Inadequately Reported Studies From Qualitative Systematic Reviews? An Evaluation of Sensitivity Analyses in Two Case Study Reviews

Carroll, Christopher, Booth, Andrew, Lloyd-Jones, Myfanwy·2012·Qualitative Health Research

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The role of critical appraisal of qualitative studies in systematic reviews remains an ongoing cause for debate. Key to such a debate is whether quality assessment can or should be used to exclude studies. In our study, we extended the use of existing criteria to assess the quality of reporting of studies included in two qualitative systematic reviews. We then excluded studies deemed to be inadequately reported from the subsequent analysis. We tested the impact of these exclusions on the overall findings of the synthesis and its depth or thickness. Exclusion of so-called inadequately reported studies had no meaningful effect on the synthesis. There was a correlation between quality of reporting of a study and its values as a source for the final synthesis. We propose that there is a possible case for excluding inadequately reported studies from qualitative evidence synthesis.

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Authors: Carroll, C., Booth, A., & Lloyd-Jones, M.
Affiliations: University of Sheffield (GB)
ORCID: Carroll, Christopher
Booth, Andrew
Venue: Qualitative Health Research
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2012-08-03
Volume: 22
Issue: 10
Pages: 1425-1434
ISSN: 1049-7323 (ISSN-L)
1552-7557
DOI: 10.1177/1049732312452937
OpenAlex: W2161865743
Cited by: 248
References: 49
Citations by year: 2026: 16 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 1
FWCI: 2.45
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Qualitative Health Research (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
Social Sciences › Education › Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Delphi Technique in Research
Keywords: study exclusion, critical appraisal, quality assessment, reporting quality, qualitative evidence synthesis, sensitivity analysis
MeSH terms: Review Literature as Topic, Sensitivity and Specificity, Reproducibility of Results, Qualitative Research

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