Effectiveness of probiotics in irritable bowel syndrome: methodological quality of meta-analyses and systematic reviews

Abstract

This study assessed the methodological quality of systematic reviews/meta-analysis of the effectiveness of probiotics against irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) using the accepted methodological quality assessment scale AMSTAR and explored the factors that influenced the quality of methodology. It was designed to provide a reference for future research and systematic reviews/metaanalysis.

Keywords

• probiotics
• irritable bowel syndrome
• systematic review
• meta-analysis
• methodological quality