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The state of asthma epidemiology: an overview of systematic reviews and their quality

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical and Translational Allergy, March 2017
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Title
The state of asthma epidemiology: an overview of systematic reviews and their quality
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Clinical and Translational Allergy, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13601-017-0146-y
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Jon Genuneit, Annina M. Seibold, Christian J. Apfelbacher, George N. Konstantinou, Jennifer J. Koplin, Stefania La Grutta, Kirsty Logan, Carsten Flohr, Michael R. Perkin, Task Force “Overview of Systematic Reviews in Allergy Epidemiology ” of the EAACI Interest Group on Epidemiology

Abstract

Recently, we have published an overview of systematic reviews in allergy epidemiology and identified asthma as the most commonly reviewed allergic disease. Building on this work, we aimed to investigate the quality of systematic reviews in asthma using the AMSTAR checklist and to provide a reference for future, more in-depth assessment of the extent of previous knowledge. We included all 307 systematic reviews indexed with asthma, including occupational asthma, and/or wheeze from our previous search in PubMed and EMBASE up to December 2014 for systematic reviews on epidemiological research on allergic diseases. Topics of the included systematic reviews were indexed and we applied the AMSTAR checklist for methodological quality to all. Statistical analyses include description of lower and upper bounds of AMSTAR scores and variation across publication time and topics. Of 43 topics catalogued, family history, birth weight, and feeding of formula were only covered once in systematic reviews published from 2011 onwards. Overall, at least one meta-analysis was conducted for all topics except for "social determinants", "perinatal", "birth weight", and "climate". AMSTAR quality scores were significantly higher in more recently published systematic reviews, in those with meta-analysis, and in Cochrane reviews. There was evidence of variation of quality across topics even, after accounting for these characteristics. Genetic factors in asthma development were often covered by systematic reviews with some evidence of unsubstantiated updates or repetition. We present a comprehensive overview with an indexed database of published systematic reviews in asthma epidemiology including quality scores. We highlight some topics including active smoking and pets, which should be considered for future systematic reviews. We propose that our search strategy and database could be a basis for topic-specific overviews of systematic reviews in asthma epidemiology.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Korea, Republic of 1 2%
Unknown 63 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 19%
Student > Bachelor 10 16%
Researcher 5 8%
Student > Postgraduate 5 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 8%
Other 13 20%
Unknown 14 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 41%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 5%
Computer Science 2 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 3%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 16 25%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 January 2018.
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#1,255,853
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#34
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Outputs of similar age from Clinical and Translational Allergy
#2
of 9 outputs
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