TABLE 4

Evidence of Flaws Within Reviewed Health Technology Assessment Systematic Reviews

Review	Factual errors	Injudicious appraisal of quality and quantity of evidence	Injudicious appraisal of evidence consistency	Injudicious appraisal of clinical importance of evidence	Individual patient outcomes not paramount
Pre-STARD
VATAP	+^*	+^*	+	+^*	+^*
MSAC 2001	+	+	+	+	+^*
ICES		+^*	+	+
DACEHTA	+^*	+	+	+	+^*
HTBS	+	+	+^*	+	+^*
Post-STARD (2003)
NIHR	+^*	+	+	+	+^*
MSAC CRC 2008	+	+^*	+	+
MSAC H&N 2009	+^*	+	+	+
MSAC Lymphoma 2010		+^*	+	+