Table 1 Projects with data available publicly on the Systematic Review Data Repository (SRDR) website as of November 12, 2019, sorted by whether or not the review was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Characteristic | Projects funded by AHRQ (N = 104) | Projects not funded by AHRQ (N = 48) | All projects (N = 152) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | N | % | N | % | |
Discipline | ||||||
Clinical | 97 | (93) | 47 | (98) | 144 | (95) |
Public health | 5 | (5) | 1 | (2) | 6 | (4) |
Toxicology | 2 | (2) | 0 | (0) | 2 | (1) |
Primary focus of the review | ||||||
Interventions (therapeutic or preventive) | 79 | (76) | 30 | (63) | 109 | (72) |
Diagnosis | 14 | (14) | 1 | (2) | 15 | (10) |
Epidemiology—exposure-outcome association | 0 | (0) | 10 | (21) | 10 | (7) |
Epidemiology—incidence or prevalence | 2 | (2) | 2 | (4) | 4 | (3) |
Prognosis | 1 | (1) | 0 | (0) | 1 | (1) |
Screening | 6 | (6) | 0 | (0) | 6 | (4) |
Methodology | 2 | (2) | 5 | (10) | 7 | (5) |
Primary health area addressed (per International Classification of Diseases-10) | ||||||
Mental and behavioral disorders | 30 | (29) | 1 | (2) | 31 | (20) |
Diseases of the eye and ocular adnexa | 1 | (1) | 22 | (46) | 23 | (15) |
Neoplasms | 11 | (11) | 2 | (4) | 13 | (9) |
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue | 11 | (11) | 1 | (2) | 12 | (8) |
Symptoms, signs, and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified | 4 | (4) | 6 | (13) | 10 | (7) |
Diseases of the genitourinary system | 5 | (5) | 4 | (8) | 9 | (6) |
Diseases of the circulatory system | 7 | (7) | 1 | (2) | 8 | (5) |
Diseases of the respiratory system | 7 | (7) | 0 | (0) | 7 | (5) |
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases | 7 | (7) | 0 | (0) | 7 | (5) |
Factors influencing health status and contact with health services | 5 | (5) | 1 | (2) | 6 | (4) |
Injury, poisoning, and certain other consequences of external causes | 5 | (5) | 0 | (0) | 5 | (3) |
Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases | 2 | (2) | 2 | (4) | 4 | (3) |
Pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium | 3 | (3) | 1 | (2) | 4 | (3) |
Diseases of the digestive system | 2 | (2) | 1 | (2) | 3 | (2) |
Congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities | 1 | (1) | 0 | (0) | 1 | (1) |
Diseases of the ear and mastoid process | 1 | (1) | 0 | (0) | 1 | (1) |
Codes for special purposes | 0 | (0) | 1 | (2) | 1 | (1) |
Other—methodology | 2 | (2) | 5 | (10) | 7 | (5) |
Type of project | ||||||
Full systematic review/technology assessment | 93 | (90) | 39 | (81) | 132 | (87) |
Technical brief | 8 | (8) | 0 | (0) | 8 | (5) |
Methods research | 2 | (2) | 5 | (10) | 7 | (5) |
Evidence map | 1 | (1) | 4 | (8) | 5 | (3) |
Registration status in PROSPERO (for full systematic reviews/technology assessments only) | ||||||
Yes | 46 | (49) | 12 | (31) | 48 | (44) |
No | 47 | (51) | 27 | (69) | 74 | (56) |
Funding source(s) for project (more than one funding source could apply) | ||||||
Government | 104 | (100) | 32 | (70) | 136 | (91) |
Pharmaceutical industry | 0 | (0) | 0 | (0) | 0 | (0) |
Other industry | 0 | (0) | 5 | (11) | 5 | (3) |
Foundation/professional society | 0 | (0) | 3 | (7) | 3 | (2) |
Other funding source | 0 | (0) | 11 | (24) | 11 | (7) |
Explicitly stated that no funding was received | 0 | (0) | 2 | (5) | 2 | (2) |
Country of corresponding author | ||||||
USA | 102 | (98) | 43 | (90) | 145 | (95) |
Canada | 2 | (2) | 0 | (0) | 2 | (1) |
UK | 0 | (0) | 2 | (4) | 2 | (1) |
Germany | 0 | (0) | 1 | (2) | 1 | (1) |
Lebanon | 0 | (0) | 1 | (2) | 1 | (1) |
Saudi Arabia | 0 | (0) | 1 | (2) | 1 | (1) |
Format of addition of included study data to SRDR (more than one format could apply) | ||||||
Manual completion of SRDR data extraction forms | 27 | (26) | 39 | (81) | 66 | (43) |
Import of data into SRDR data extraction forms | 23 | (22) | 19 | (40) | 42 | (28) |
Upload of data as flat files (i.e., not into SRDR data extraction forms) | 68 | (65) | 2 | (4) | 70 | (46) |