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Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis MCQs

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A 20 MCQs set of Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis MCQs

• Which of the following is not always required in systematic review?

1. Protocol development
2. Search strategy
3. Involvement of more than one author
4. Meta-analysis

Correct answer: Meta-analysis

• A systematic review of evidence from qualitative studies is also known as a meta-analysis.

1. True
2. False
3. both
4. None of them

Correct answer: False

• Which of the steps are included in the systematic review?

1. Formulate a question and develop a protocol
2. Conduct search
3. Select studies, assess study quality, and extract data
4. All of the above

Correct answer: All of the above

• Where do we register the protocol of systematic review that will be conducted at the national level?

1.  Health Research Council of country
2. ClinicalTrial.gov
3. PROSPERO
4. None

Correct answer: PROSPERO

• What does “S” stand for in PICOS?

1. Selection
2. Search
3. Systematic review
4. Study

Correct answer: Study

• Which is not the effect size based on continuous variables?

1. Absolute mean difference
2. Standardized mean difference
3. Odds ratio
4. Response ratio

Correct answer: Odds ratio

• A forest plot displays effect estimates and confidence intervals for both individual studies and meta-analyses. *

1. True
2. False
3. Both
4. None of them

Correct answer: True

• Which is/are the advantage/s of the meta-analyses?

1. To improve precision
2. To answer questions not posed by the individual studies
3. To settle controversies arising from apparently conflicting studies or to generate new hypotheses
4. All of the above

Correct answer: All of the above

• In the inverse-variance method, larger studies are given more weight than smaller studies.

1. True
2. False
3. Both
4. None of them

Correct answer: True

• Which of the following method is done with the inverse-variance method?

1. Fixed-effect method for meta-analysis
2. Random-effects methods for meta-analysis
3. Both
4. None

Correct answer: Both

• Meta-regressions are similar in essence to simple regressions, in which an outcome variable is predicted according to the values of one or more explanatory variables.

1. True
2. False

Correct answer-True

• Which of the following review does not necessarily require methodological quality assessment of included studies?

1. Systematic review
2. Narrative review
3. Scoping review
4. Both b and c

Correct answer: Both b and c

• Which of the following is not related to selection bias?

1. Random sequence generation
2. Allocation concealment
3. Attrition
4. None

Correct answer: Attrition

• Which is true about GRADE?

14. A framework for developing and presenting summaries of evidence and providing a systematic approach for making clinical practice recommendations
15. Tool for grading the quality of evidence and for making recommendations
16. A reproducible and transparent framework for grading certainty in evidence
17. All of the above

Correct answer: All of the above

• Which of the following checklist is used to report the systematic review?

1. PRISMA
2. CONSORT
3. STROBE
4. COREQ

Correct answer: PRISMA

• Which of the following is the most rigorous and methodologically complex kind of review article?

1. Narrative review
2. Scoping review
3. Systematic review
4. Meta-analysis

Correct answer: Meta-analysis

• Which of the following study provided the most robust evidence?

1. Randomized clinical trails
2. Cohort study
3. Cross-sectional analytical study
4. Systematic review and meta-analysis

Correct answer: Systematic review and meta-analysis

• Steps in a meta-analysis include all of the following except:

1. Analysis
2. Abstraction
3. Selection
4. Randomization

Correct answer: Randomization

• A fixed-effects model is most appropriate in a meta-analysis when study findings are

1. Homogenous
2. Heterogenous
3. Either homogenous or heterogenous
4. Neither homogenous nor heterogenous

Correct answer: Homogenous

• What is the full form of PRISMA?

1. Providing Results for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses
2. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
3. Providing Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
4. Provisional Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

Correct answer: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses