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http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/32150| Title: | AMSTAR-PF: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews of prognostic factor studies |
| Authors: | Henry, ML O'Connell, NE Riley, RD Moons, KGM Shea, BJ Hooft, L Damen, JAA Skoetz, N Wallwork, SB Moseley, LG |
| Issue Date: | 22-Dec-2025 |
| Publisher: | BMJ Publishing Group |
| Citation: | Henry, M.L. et al. (2025) 'AMSTAR-PF: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews of prognostic factor studies', BMJ: British Medical Journal, 391, e085718, pp. 1 - 11. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2025-085718. |
| Abstract: | The ability to predict the onset or natural history of an illness, or how people may respond to a treatment, guides clinical decision making. These predictions are commonly based on prognostic factors: clinical, patient, or societal variables that are identified as being predictive of a certain future outcome. Prognostic factor research has increased across fields, with a subsequent increase in the number of systematic reviews of prognostic factors studies. Understanding the quality of such prognostic factor reviews is essential for confidence in their findings, but there is no quality appraisal instrument to specifically assess systematic reviews of prognostic factor studies. A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews of Prognostic Factor studies, AMSTAR-PF, has been developed to fill this gap. |
| Description: | Data availability statement:
Data related to agreement testing can be found in the referenced paper, or on reasonable request from the corresponding author at neil.oconnell@brunel.ac.uk. The draft versions of the tool and guidance notes generated during the development process are available on reasonable request, from the corresponding author. A preprint version of the article is available at medRxiv, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.10.25325555v1 . It has not been certified by peer review. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice. The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY 4.0 International license. |
| URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/32150 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2025-085718 |
| ISSN: | 1759-2151 |
| Other Identifiers: | ORCiD: Michael L. Henry https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2871-6695 ORCiD: Neil O'Connell https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1989-4537 ORCiD: Richard D. Riley https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8699-0735 ORCiD: Karel G. M. Moons https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2118-004X ORCiD: Lotty Hooft https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7950-2980 ORCiD: Johanna A. A. Damen https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7401-4593 ORCiD: Nicole Skoetz https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4744-6192 Article number: e085718 |
| Appears in Collections: | Dept of Health Sciences Research Papers |
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| FullText.pdf | Copyright © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025. Published by BMJ. This is the accepted manuscript version of an article which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2025-085718. Reuse of this manuscript version (excluding any databases, tables, diagrams, photographs and other images or illustrative material included where a another copyright owner is identified) is permitted strictly pursuant to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (see: https://www.bmj.com/company/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Non-Open-Access-Articles-September-2018.pdf). | 438.92 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| AMSTAR-PF Development_Figure1.pdf | Copyright © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025. Published by BMJ. This is the accepted manuscript version of an article which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2025-085718. Reuse of this manuscript version (excluding any databases, tables, diagrams, photographs and other images or illustrative material included where a another copyright owner is identified) is permitted strictly pursuant to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (see: https://www.bmj.com/company/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Non-Open-Access-Articles-September-2018.pdf). | 184.5 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| SM_2B_AMSTAR-PF guidance_notes.docx | Copyright © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025. Published by BMJ. This is the accepted manuscript version of an article which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2025-085718. Reuse of this manuscript version (excluding any databases, tables, diagrams, photographs and other images or illustrative material included where a another copyright owner is identified) is permitted strictly pursuant to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (see: https://www.bmj.com/company/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Non-Open-Access-Articles-September-2018.pdf). | 98.88 kB | Microsoft Word XML | View/Open |
| SM_2A_AMSTAR-PF_tool.docx | Copyright © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025. Published by BMJ. This is the accepted manuscript version of an article which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2025-085718. Reuse of this manuscript version (excluding any databases, tables, diagrams, photographs and other images or illustrative material included where a another copyright owner is identified) is permitted strictly pursuant to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (see: https://www.bmj.com/company/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Non-Open-Access-Articles-September-2018.pdf). | 68.95 kB | Microsoft Word XML | View/Open |
| SM_2C_AMSTAR-PF_SpreadsheetVersion.xlsm | Copyright © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025. Published by BMJ. This is the accepted manuscript version of an article which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2025-085718. Reuse of this manuscript version (excluding any databases, tables, diagrams, photographs and other images or illustrative material included where a another copyright owner is identified) is permitted strictly pursuant to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (see: https://www.bmj.com/company/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Non-Open-Access-Articles-September-2018.pdf). | 289.7 kB | Unknown | View/Open |
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