{
  "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.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "IIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, SA, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Michael L Henry"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Health and Wellbeing Across the Lifecourse, Department of Health Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Neil E O’Connell"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Applied Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK",
        "National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, Birmingham, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Richard D Riley"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands",
        "Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands"
      ],
      "name": "Karel G M Moons"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada",
        "Bruyère Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Beverley J Shea"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands",
        "Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands"
      ],
      "name": "Lotty Hooft"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands",
        "Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands"
      ],
      "name": "Johanna A A Damen"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany"
      ],
      "name": "Nicole Skoetz"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "IIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, SA, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Sarah B Wallwork"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "IIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, SA, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "G Lorimer Moseley"
    }
  ],
  "title": "AMSTAR-PF: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews of prognostic factor studies",
  "uid": "e2d3e4f3-8ca2-589e-8504-145c7b4972a7"
}