Please answer the question below on a topic of Parkinson’s disease
Link: https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mdc3.12568
1) How many people were included as authors of the paper? What were their professional
or academic affiliations?
2) What journal was the article published in?
3) What funding sources and/or conflicts of interest are noted in the article?
4) Does the article have an abstract? If yes, do you think it gives an accurate summary of
the content of the article?
5) Does the article state a clear, focused question or objective? Do the authors state why
they conducted this particular systematic review? Or, why is this an important topic
worthy of review? Please report the reasons as stated by the authors.
6) Do the authors provide sufficient details on their search strategy for locating articles
that are part of the systematic review? Please report on which databases were
searched, which search terms were used, and any inclusion and exclusion criteria they
applied to the literature review. If none of these methods were used, did they describe
any strategy by which they located the articles discussed in the review?
7) How many articles were included in the final review? How many articles were excluded?
Did the authors provide a flow chart overview of all of the articles considered? If yes,
please copy and paste it here.
8) How many of the articles that were included in the review were based on data collected
in the US? How many were conducted in other countries?
9) Did the authors extract relevant data from each article? How was the data extraction
conducted? Did they use multiple reviewers to extract data from the articles? Please
describe.
10) Did the authors critically appraise the quality/validity of the studies identified from their
search strategy? Please report on any criteria or framework used to assess the quality
of the studies included and the risk for bias.
11) What types of study designs were included in the articles that were part of the review?
12) Did the authors address or comment on publication bias? Please describe.
13) Did they use any statistical analysis as part of the systematic review? Did they aggregate
or pool data from the studies? Please describe.
14) Did the authors include a discussion of the strengths and limitations of their review?
Please provide a summary of those strengths and limitations.
15) Did the authors summarize the evidence that was considered as part of the review? Do
these conclusions seem to align with the results? Please describe.
16) Do the authors make any recommendations for clinical or public health practice? Please
describe.
17) Please comment on any other elements of the article that you found good, bad,
confusing or unclear.
