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. 2012 Mar 20;9(3):e1001187. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001187

Table 1. Commonly used tools to assess systematic reviews and their findings and to assess clinical guidelines.

Systematic Reviews
SUPPORT (SUPporting Policy Relevant Reviews and Trials) tool [9] A tool to assess how much confidence to place in the methodological quality of a systematic review, and designed for reviews of health systems interventions
AMSTAR (A measurement tool for the “assessment of multiple systematic reviews”) [10] A tool designed to assess the methodological quality of a systematic review. This tool has not been designed specifically to assess how much confidence to place in reviews of health systems interventions
GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) [41] An approach to assess the quality of evidence
PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses) [8] A tool to assess the reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses
SUPPORT applicability tool [33] and Wang applicability and transferability tool [34] Tools to assist in assessing the applicability of the findings of a systematic review to a specific setting