1.Establishing inclusion and exclusion criteria means to __________.
A) Identify the criteria that are used to keep articles in the study and to identify criteria that are used to remove articles from the study
2.The flow diagram for a database search and data extraction may look similar to the following:
A) First round filtering → Second round filtering → Data extraction → Data analysis
3.True or false? Study subjects who did not use a mobile physical activity app or a mobile app to deliver the intervention. This statement is an example of an exclusion criteria.
A) True
4.Having a publication bias could mean that __________.
A) Articles with positive results are more often published than those with negative results
5.True or false? To evaluate the risk of bias for the selected studies, one frequently used approach is to collect information using the Cochrane Collaboration Tool.
A) True
6.GRADE system is used to judge the quality of evidence in the healthcare literature. The criteria include;
A) Study limitations, indirectness of evidence, inconsistency of results, imprecision of results, and publication bias
7.True or false? Researchers can assess the overall quality of evidence for every important outcome using the GRADE four-point scale.
A) True
8.The rationale behind meta-analysis is that a larger sample collected from a number of similar studies will ___________ biases inherent in any particular study.
A) Cancel out
9.Grey literature refers to __________.
A) Conference proceedings, research registries, and reports
10.A funnel plot is a _______________ plot of intervention effect estimated from individual studies against some measure of each study’s size or precision.
A) Scatter
11.A ___________ plot is a graphical display of estimated results from a number of studies on the same topic, the amount of variation, and the overall estimate of effect.
A) Forest
12.Sensitivity analysis is used to determine __________.
A) How sensitive the result of a meta-analysis is if it is done differently—for instance, on a different set of studies
13.True or false? It is recommended that two or more reviewers in a team work together to review the selected articles.
A) False
14.PRISMA-P recommends that each systematic review include eligibility criteria using PICOS. This stands for:
A) Participants, Intervention, comparisons, outcomes and study design
15.A limitation of qualitative analysis is that __________.
A) It is interpretive depending on the review and the analysis performed
16.Inclusion criteria are used to keep articles in the study while the exclusion criteria are used to add articles to the study
A) False
17.To perform a search in a database, there are two key components are needed, _________.
A) Key words and databases to be used