I was at Evidence Live last week to discuss the Community Rapid Review idea. It was good to see a number of sessions on rapid reviews and in one of those (where I was in the audience) a question was asked relating to comparisons between ‘rapid’ and ‘systematic’ reviews. I suggested that, for Evidence Live 2018, there should be a RR ‘hack’! At the start … Continue reading Evidence Live 2018: Rapid review hackathon
A simple experiment, searching PubMed for mentions of rapid reviews over time and doing a similar thing with systematic reviews. For my own sake I lumped (technical term) some earlier dates to give the following results for rapid reviews: 1980-89 – 10 1990-1999 – 25 2000-2004 – 32 2005-2009 – 31 2010 – 10 2011 – 14 2012 – 11 2013 – 18 2014 – … Continue reading The rise of rapid reviews? Growth compared with systematic reviews
More a rapid review than a systematic review! Below is a list of articles that have mainly explored the effects of restricting the database used in a search. At the bottom there are a smaller number of articles that have explored the impact of restricting the articles used to English-language. Database restrictions The comprehensiveness of Medline and Embase computer searches. Kleijnen J et al. Pharm … Continue reading Restricting the databases (or language) for a search
This review links to two articles published on the Trip Databases ‘Liberating the literature’ blog. Conflict of Interest – I wrote both of them. The first article was published in April 2012 and was a list of articles that compared rapid versus systematic methods. The second article (published shortly afterwards) was a list of lessons learned, which I reproduce below: Lesson 1: The notion of … Continue reading Rapid versus systematic reviews
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