Daptomycin for vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infection

During the first stage, the reviewer used the criteria in Table 1 to screen the titles and abstracts of identified citations, and acquire the full texts of articles that were potentially eligible. [...] Country of Origin The SR included two studies that were conducted in Taiwan, while the rest were from the United States of America (USA).8 All three non-randomized studies were conducted in the USA. [...] In addition, although two reviewers independently evaluated each study and abstracted data, there was no indication that the individuals underwent piloting or calibration exercises, and the authors did not provide the level of agreement, which threatens the reproducibility of the findings. [...] Moreover, although the SIGN50 checklist was used to assess study quality, the tool was not referenced, which leaves uncertain the version used, and the results of the quality assessment were not provided. [...] The authors did not provide the individual assessments of study quality, nor did they evaluate the quality of the body of evidence (e.g.