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Michelle M. Haby; Jorge Otávio Maia Barreto; Jenny Yeon Hee Kim; Sasha Peiris; Cristián Mansilla; Marcela Torres; Diego Emmanuel Guerrero-Magaña; Ludovic Reveiz – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
Rapid review methodology aims to facilitate faster conduct of systematic reviews to meet the needs of the decision-maker, while also maintaining quality and credibility. This systematic review aimed to determine the impact of different methodological shortcuts for undertaking rapid reviews on the risk of bias (RoB) of the results of the review.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Medical Research, Research Reports, Search Strategies
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Pieper, Dawid; Hoffmann, Falk – Research Synthesis Methods, 2022
Cochrane reviews are known to be a high-quality source of evidence synthesis supporting health care decisions. In a recently conducted study, we analyzed the trends in epidemiology and reporting of published systematic reviews over the last 20 years. This sample of 1132 systematic reviews included 84 Cochrane reviews. We have learned several…
Descriptors: Evidence, Health Services, Decision Making, Medical Research
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Rombey, Tanja; Lochner, Valerie; Puljak, Livia; Könsgen, Nadja; Mathes, Tim; Pieper, Dawid – Research Synthesis Methods, 2020
Background: It is important that systematic reviews (SRs) are up-to-date, otherwise they cannot be relied upon to guide decision-making in practice and policy. Our aim was to investigate epidemiological, descriptive and reporting characteristics of a cross-section of recently published updates of SRs. Methods: A SR update was defined as a new…
Descriptors: Epidemiology, Decision Making, Case Studies, Research Reports