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SynthesisJournal of immigrant and minority health2019

Migrant Healthcare Guidelines: A Systematic Quality Assessment.

Eric Nwachukwu Agbata, Paulina Fuentes Padilla, Ifeoma Nwando Agbata, Laura Hidalgo Armas, Ivan Solà, Kevin Pottie, Pablo Alonso-Coello

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Synthesis in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Quality of health care for refugees - a systematic review.BMC international health and human rights · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Eric Nwachukwu AgbataFaculty of Health and Psychology, Master of Public Health (MPH) programme, University of Roehampton, London, UK. eric.agbata@roehampton-online.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5371-5390
Paulina Fuentes PadillaIberoamerican Cochrane Centre, Barcelona, Spain.
Ifeoma Nwando AgbataThe Wicklow Mental Health Service, Newcastle Hospital, Greystones, Wicklow, Ireland.
Laura Hidalgo ArmasBiomedical Research Institute, Sant Pau (IIB Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain.
Ivan SolàCIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain.
Kevin PottieCentre for Global Health Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Pablo Alonso-CoelloIberoamerican Cochrane Centre, Barcelona, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Significant international and cross-border migration has led to a growing availability of migrant healthcare guidelines (MHGs), which we systematically reviewed for quality. PubMed, MEDLINE, CINHAL, PsychINFO and guideline developer/guideline databases were searched for MHGs published 2006-2016. Three independent reviewers assessed eligible MHGs using the Appraisal of Guidelines, Research and Evaluation II instrument (AGREE II). MHGs were identified as high quality if they had a score of ≥ 60% in at least three of the six domains, including "rigour of development", and overall quality was assessed on a seven-point Likert scale. We included 32 MHGs. Overall agreement between reviewers was very good. Mean scores for each AGREE II domain were as follows: 85 ± 19.0% for "scope and purpose"; 51 ± 30.5% for "stakeholder involvement"; 34 ± 31.9% for "rigour of development"; 86 ± 7.3% for "clarity of presentation"; 40 ± 23.6% for "applicability"; and 27 ± 38.5% for "editorial independence". Nine and six MHGs were deemed "recommended" or "recommended with modifications", respectively, and 17 were "not recommended". Our review of MHGs has highlighted critical deficiencies in rigour of development, applicability, editorial independence and stakeholder involvement that point to the need for improvements in future MHGs.

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Culturally Competent CareEvidence-Based MedicineHealth Services AccessibilityHumansMinority HealthPractice Guidelines as TopicTransients and MigrantsAGREE II toolMigrant healthPractice guidelinesQuality assessmentRefugee health

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