Certainty of evidence for narrative medicine education effects is rated very low under GRADE¶

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q2 i? The certainty of evidence for all meta-analyses was rated very low, attributed to methodological limitations, substantial heterogeneity, imprecision, and publication bias. → Dai Dongjun 2026

Evidence¶

Dai Dongjun 2026¶

Dai Dongjun, Fan Yuzhi, Zhang Wenbao, Wei Qichun. (2026). The effect of narrative medicine-based education on academic performance and humanistic communication in residency training: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-53552-x

q2 · i? · quant-synthesis · r2

The review's own GRADE assessment across all pooled outcomes, downgraded for risk of bias, inconsistency, imprecision, and publication bias. No effect size is attached to this rating; it qualifies the strength of all pooled findings.

"the certainty of evidence for all meta-analyses was rated as very low using the GRADE approach. This was mainly attributed to the widespread methodological limitations (lack of randomization, allocation concealment, and blinding) in the included studies and the substantial heterogeneity (I2 > 50%) across meta-analyses"

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