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
There are so many reasons to address the area of value in evidence synthesis…. Broadly, I get depressed by the lack of challenge to the hegemonic position of long-winded systematic reviews in the world of EBM. If it was proven that systematic reviews, using ‘standard’ methods produced ‘accurate’ answers then I’d be more sympathetic. But it’s demonstrably true that systematic reviews, based on published journal … Continue reading Motivations for this blog
Below is a list of articles related to increasing value in evidence synthesis. It may be about increasing the speed of reviewing, critiques of current methods or comparisons of methods. It does not include articles that report on computer supported techniques such as text-mining, computer learning etc. There is a separate list available, on this site: List of articles (automation, text-mining etc.). 2000 The use … Continue reading List of articles
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