PMID- 24115970
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20131011
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1874-3250 (Print)
IS  - 1874-3250 (Electronic)
IS  - 1874-3250 (Linking)
VI  - 7
DP  - 2013
TI  - A description of the methodology used in an overview of reviews to evaluate 
      evidence on the treatment, harms, diagnosis/classification, prognosis and 
      outcomes used in the management of neck pain.
PG  - 461-72
LID - 10.2174/1874325001307010461 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Neck Pain (NP) is a common musculoskeletal disorder and the 
      literature provides conflicting evidence about its management. OBJECTIVE: To 
      describe the methodology used to conduct an overview of reviews (OvR) and to 
      characterize the distribution and risk of bias profiles across the evidence for 
      all areas of NP management. METHODS: Standard systematic review (SR) methodology 
      was employed. MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, ILC, Cochrane CENTRAL, and LILACS were 
      searched from 2000 to March 2012; Narrative and SR and clinical practice 
      guidelines (CPG) evaluating the efficacy of treatment (benefits and harms), 
      diagnosis/classification, prognosis, and outcomes were eligible. For treatment, 
      articles were limited to SRs from 2005 forward. Risk of bias of SR was assessed 
      with the AMSTAR; the AGREE II was used to critically appraise the CPGs. RESULTS: 
      From 2476 articles, 508 were eligible for full text screening. A total of 341 
      articles were included. Treatment (n=117) had the greatest yield. Other clinical 
      areas had less literature (diagnosis=54, prognosis=16, outcomes=27, harms=16). 
      There were no SR for classification and narrative reviews were problematic for 
      this topic. There was great overlap across different databases within each 
      clinical area except for those for outcome measures. Risk of bias assessment 
      using the AMSTAR of eligible SRs showed a similar trend across different clinical 
      areas. CONCLUSION: A summary of methods used to review the literature in five 
      clinical areas of NP management have been described. The challenges of selecting 
      and synthesizing eligible articles in an OvR required customized solutions across 
      different areas of clinical focus.
FAU - Santaguida, P Lina
AU  - Santaguida PL
AD  - Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 
      Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
FAU - Keshavarz, Homa
AU  - Keshavarz H
FAU - Carlesso, Lisa C
AU  - Carlesso LC
FAU - Lomotan, Margaret
AU  - Lomotan M
FAU - Gross, Anita
AU  - Gross A
FAU - Macdermid, Joy C
AU  - Macdermid JC
FAU - Walton, David M
AU  - Walton DM
CN  - ICON Working Group
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20130920
PL  - United Arab Emirates
TA  - Open Orthop J
JT  - The open orthopaedics journal
JID - 101480491
PMC - PMC3793583
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Evidence syntheses
OT  - neck pain.
OT  - overview of reviews
EDAT- 2013/10/12 06:00
MHDA- 2013/10/12 06:01
PMCR- 2013/01/01
CRDT- 2013/10/12 06:00
PHST- 2012/12/11 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/03/19 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2013/03/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/10/12 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/10/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/10/12 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2013/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - TOORTHJ-7-461 [pii]
AID - 10.2174/1874325001307010461 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Open Orthop J. 2013 Sep 20;7:461-72. doi: 10.2174/1874325001307010461. 
      eCollection 2013.