This guide aims to round up the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) on conducting systematic reviews
There are so many quality assessment tools provided by several research groups. In general, you can choose a tool depending on the study type. This is up to you to choose a tool – there is no golden standard for this.
All critical appraisal tools have their limitations. Although the tool you used might not be enough to detect the underlying methodological issues, there is not a gold standard for choosing a critical appraisal tool (Katrak 2004) and the choice of a tool would not impact the result of the evidence synthesis (Pieper 2014). So, your choice of the QC tool might not assess the scientific quality of a study accurately however the results of the analyses would not be changed even if you choose other QC tools.
