Overviews of Reviews: Concept and Development

  1. José Antonio López-López 1
  2. María Rubio-Aparicio 2
  3. Julio Sánchez-Meca 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

  2. 2 Universitat d'Alacant
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    Universitat d'Alacant

    Alicante, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05t8bcz72

Revista:
Psicothema

ISSN: 0214-9915 1886-144X

Año de publicación: 2022

Volumen: 34

Número: 2

Páginas: 175-181

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.7334/PSICOTHEMA2021.586 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Psicothema

Resumen

Antecedentes: en los últimos años, las meta-revisiones, o revisiones paraguas, han incrementado exponencialmente su uso. Una meta-revisión proporciona un resumen de las revisiones incluidas y, a menudo, aborda preguntas más allá de las planteadas en las revisiones sistemáticas sintetizadas. El propósito de este artículo fue proporcionar recomendaciones sobre cómo deben hacerse y reportarse las meta-revisiones. Método: se llevó a cabo una revisión de la literatura para identificar artículos relevantes sobre meta-revisiones, tanto metodológicos como aplicados. Resultados: a día de hoy la literatura sobre meta-revisiones recomienda seguir los mismos pasos que en las revisiones sistemáticas: (a) definición de la pregunta de investigación; (b) criterios de inclusión y exclusión; (c) búsqueda de la literatura; (d) extracción de datos; (e) valoración del riesgo de sesgo y de la calidad del reporte; (f) presentación de resultados; y (g) reporte de la meta-revisión. De especial interés es cómo abordar los problemas de dependencia entre las revisiones sistemáticas sintetizadas. Conclusiones: las meta-revisiones permiten combinar evidencia de múltiples revisiones sistemáticas de una forma eficiente. Esto permite transformar y resumir grandes cantidades de información. Al igual que en los estudios primarios y las revisiones sistemáticas, las meta-revisiones deben realizarse y reportarse cumpliendo con estándares mínimos de calidad.

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