Limited information on the quality assessment of included
Research gap analysis derived from 4 medicine papers in our local library.
The gap
Limited information on the quality assessment of included studies and potential risk of bias across the reviewed studies.
Evidence profile
Sourced from the limitations of the source papers, classified as methodology gap, drawn from work published between 2022 and 2026, spanning 4 journals. Those papers have been cited 4 times in total.
Research trend
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Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps
- Effects of noninvasive brain stimulation in the treatment of poststroke depression: an overview of systematic reviews (2026) · Frontiers in Neurology · doi
85% of the studies were of low or critically low methodological quality, with common issues including studies not being registered, failure to explain study designs included in the review, incomplete literature searches, and lack of reporting on conflicts of interest and funding sources.
methodology gaplimitationsevidence 5/5Keywords: critically methodological quality common issues including registered failure explain designs included review incomplete literature searches - Risk factors for scabies in school children: a systematic review (2022) · Voprosy praktičeskoj pediatrii · cited 4× · doi
Limited information on the quality assessment of included studies and potential risk of bias across the reviewed studies.
methodology gaplimitationsevidence 3/5Keywords: limited information quality assessment included potential risk bias across reviewed - Mechanical and oral antibiotics bowel preparation reduce the risk of surgical site infections and anastomotic leakage in colorectal surgery: a GRADE-based meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis (2026) · Frontiers in Medicine · doi
The lack of blinding in the study selection process may have introduced subjective bias, potentially reducing the reliability of the results.
methodology gaplimitationsevidence 3/5Keywords: lack blinding selection process introduced subjective bias potentially reducing reliability - Augmented myeloablative conditioning with olaparib in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for relapsed/refractory RUNX1::RUNX1T1-positive acute myeloid leukemia (2026) · Frontiers in Oncology · doi
Despite being a retrospective study with a limited sample size, the inherent limitations may undermine the reliability of the conclusions.
methodology gaplimitationsevidence 3/5Keywords: despite retrospective limited sample size inherent limitations undermine reliability conclusions
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