Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services
Checklists
These are useful tools and checklists when assessing studies for a systematic review:
Primary studies
- RoB 2: tool to assess risk of bias in randomized trials***
- ROBINS-I: tool to assess risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions***
- QUADAS-2: tool to assess risk of bias and applicability of primary diagnostic accuracy studies*
- CASP Checklist for appraising a qualitative study**
Systematic reviews
- QUICKSTAR – A tool to synoptically assess the methodological quality (risk of bias) of systematic reviews
- ROBIS: tool for assessing the risk of bias in systematic reviews***
- AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess systematic reviews*
- Tool to assess methodological limitations of qualitative evidence synthesis****
Health Economics and Ethics
- Checklist for assessing the quality of trialbased health economic studies
- Checklist for assessing the quality of health economic modelling studies
- Ethical aspects of health care interventions. A guideline to identifying relevant ethical aspects
- Framework for systematic identification of ethical aspects of healthcare technologies: the SBU approach (International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Volume 31, Issue 3, 2015)
* SBU uses a version translated to Swedish.
** SBU do not use CASP. Instead a checklist developed by SBU is used, only available in Swedish.
*** SBU uses a version translated to Swedish, with a question added regarding conflict of interest.
**** Checklist developed by SBU based on Tong et al, 2012.
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