I’m increasingly drawn to the concept of what is ‘correct’ in relation to systematic reviews and meta-analyses.  If we’re wanting to demonstrate the worth of a ‘rapid’ reviews we need to compare it to a ‘gold standard’ ‘correct’ answer.  There does not appear to be such a thing. I’m particularly drawn to the 2014 Deschartres paper that: “…compare treatment outcomes estimated by meta-analysis of all … Continue reading List of articles: exploring trial variables and effect on meta-analysis

2009 The impact of limited search procedures for systematic literature reviews — A participant-observer case study. Kitchenham, B. et al. Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2009. ESEM 2009. 3rd International Symposium 2010 Refining the systematic literature review process—two participant-observer case studies. Kitchenham, B. et al. Empirical Software Engineering December 2010, Volume 15, Issue 6, pp 618-653 2011 A rapid review method for extremely large corpora … Continue reading List of articles: Non-medical rapid review papers