Mahmić-Kaknjo, Mersiha https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2738-8909
Tomić, Vicko
Ellen, Moriah E.
Nussbaumer-Streit, Barbara
Sfetcu, Raluca
Baladia, Eduard
Riva, Nicoletta
Kassianos, Angelos P.
Marušić, Ana
Funding for this research was provided by:
European Cooperation in Science and Technology (CA17117)
Hrvatska Zaklada za Znanost (IP-2019-04-4882)
Article History
Received: 8 September 2022
Accepted: 20 March 2023
First Online: 28 March 2023
Declarations
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: Ethical approval for this study was granted from the Human Subjects Research Committee of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer Sheva, Israel, under the number ME21042021, on April 21st, 2021.
: At the beginning of the survey, there was an introductory text explaining details of the DS and a box that needed to be ticked by the participant to provide consent before the participant could proceed with the survey. Participants were given opportunity at each e-mail invitation to unsubscribe from further notices and leave the study at any time, without explanation, if they did not want to participate in the DS further. Participants were informed that all their answers are anonymized.
: None of the authors report any financial conflicts of interest with respect to the topic of this manuscript. All authors have a general interest in evidence synthesis methods. Some authors are associated with groups, conferences, and tools focusing on evidence synthesis methods: Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit is co-convenor of the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group. Raluca Sfetcu is a member of the JBI method group for “Systematic reviews of etiology and risk”. Ana Marušić is funded by the Croatian Science Foundation under Grant agreement No. IP-2019–04-4882.