A psychometric study found AMSTAR 2 to be a valid and moderately reliable appraisal tool

To determine the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of AMSTAR 2 for reviews of pharmacological or psychological interventions for the treatment of major depression, to compare it to that of AMSTAR and ROBIS and to assess the convergent validity between the appraisal tools.

Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - May 28, 2019 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Robert C. Lorenz, Katja Matthias, Dawid Pieper, Uta Wegewitz, Johannes Morche, Marc Nocon, Olesja Rissling, Jacqueline Schirm, Anja Jacobs Tags: Original Article Source Type: research