External Validation of a Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR)

• Beverley J. Shea ,

  *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bshea@ciet.org

  Affiliations Community Information and Epidemiological Technologies (CIET), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine (EMGO Institute), Vrije Universiteit (VU) University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Lex M. Bouter,

  Affiliation Executive Board, Vrije Universiteit (VU) University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Joan Peterson,

  Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Maarten Boers,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Vrije Universiteit (VU) University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Neil Andersson,

  Affiliations Community Information and Epidemiological Technologies (CIET), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Centro de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET), Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Acapulco, Mexico

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• Zulma Ortiz,

  Affiliation Epidemiological Research Institute, National Academy of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Tim Ramsay,

  Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Annie Bai,

  Affiliation Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Vijay K. Shukla,

  Affiliation Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Jeremy M. Grimshaw

  Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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