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CRIME-Q—a unifying tool for critical appraisal of methodological (technical) quality, quality of reporting and risk of bias in animal research

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العنوان: CRIME-Q—a unifying tool for critical appraisal of methodological (technical) quality, quality of reporting and risk of bias in animal research
المؤلفون: Mikkel Schou Andersen, Mikkel Seremet Kofoed, Asger Sand Paludan-Müller, Christian Bonde Pedersen, Tiit Mathiesen, Christian Mawrin, Birgitte Brinkmann Olsen, Bo Halle, Frantz Rom Poulsen
المصدر: BMC Medical Research Methodology, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-18 (2024)
بيانات النشر: BMC, 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine (General)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Animal research, Preclinical research, Preclinical studies, Systematic review, Preclinical methodology, Critical appraisal, Medicine (General), R5-920
الوصف: Abstract Background Systematic reviews within the field of animal research are becoming more common. However, in animal translational research, issues related to methodological quality and quality of reporting continue to arise, potentially leading to underestimation or overestimation of the effects of interventions or prevent studies from being replicated. The various tools and checklists available to ensure good-quality studies and proper reporting include both unique and/or overlapping items and/or simply lack necessary elements or are too situational to certain conditions or diseases. Currently, there is no tool available, which covers all aspects of animal models, from bench-top activities to animal facilities, hence a new tool is needed. This tool should be designed to be able to assess all kinds of animal studies such as old, new, low quality, high quality, interventional and noninterventional on. It should do this on multiple levels through items on quality of reporting, methodological (technical) quality, and risk of bias, for use in assessing the overall quality of studies involving animal research. Methods During a systematic review of meningioma models in animals, we developed a novel unifying tool that can assess all types of animal studies from multiple perspectives. The tool was inspired by the Collaborative Approach to Meta Analysis and Review of Animal Data from Experimental Studies (CAMARADES) checklist, the ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines, and SYRCLE’s risk of bias tool, while also incorporating unique items. We used the interrater agreement percentage and Cohen’s kappa index to test the interrater agreement between two independent reviewers for the items in the tool. Results There was high interrater agreement across all items (92.9%, 95% CI 91.0–94.8). Cohen’s kappa index showed quality of reporting had the best mean index of 0.86 (95%-CI 0.78–0.94), methodological quality had a mean index of 0.83 (95%-CI 0.78–0.94) and finally the items from SYRCLE’s risk of bias had a mean kappa index of 0.68 (95%-CI 0.57–0.79). Conclusions The Critical Appraisal of Methodological (technical) Quality, Quality of Reporting and Risk of Bias in Animal Research (CRIME-Q) tool unifies a broad spectrum of information (both unique items and items inspired by other methods) about the quality of reporting and methodological (technical) quality, and contains items from SYRCLE’s risk of bias. The tool is intended for use in assessing overall study quality across multiple domains and items and is not, unlike other tools, restricted to any particular model or study design (whether interventional or noninterventional). It is also easy to apply when designing and conducting animal experiments to ensure proper reporting and design in terms of replicability, transparency, and validity.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1471-2288
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1471-2288
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-024-02413-0
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/8dccce0a36f34596b3422638423ed8c1
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.8dccce0a36f34596b3422638423ed8c1
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:14712288
DOI:10.1186/s12874-024-02413-0