LitReviewPackage Checklist

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-- If you are interested in the methods or results of GBD-2010 and subsequent revisions, please visit the official website of IHME's GBD project (http://www.healthdata.org/gbd). The materials described on the website are now obsolete but these webpages have been retained as an internet archive of the work of the group.

-- Please visit the website www.globalburdenofinjuries.org to find out more about other closely related collaborations of our group members.

This table is useful to determine the quality of the articles that are shortlisted for use within the literature review.

Checklist For the Purpose of Rating Journal Articles

This checklist has been drafted by Claire Bryan-Hancock on the 19^th May with reference to Tooth et al (2005)[1].

[1] Tooth L, Ware R, Bain C, Purdie DM & Dobson A 2005, ‘Quality of reporting of observational longitudinal research’, American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 161, no. 3, pg. 280-288.