| Ref ID | 513 |
| First Author | E. M. Beller |
| Journal | SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS |
| Year Of Publishing | 2013 |
| URL | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23714302/ |
| Keywords |
• General medical • Currency • Searching • Low reporting quality • Transparency |
| Problem(s) |
• Outdated searches • Insufficient literature searches |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | Australia |
| Aim | To assess the recency and other characteristics of systematic reviews published in the National Library of Medicine’s Core Clinical Journals indexed in MEDLINE between 2009-2011 at the time of their publication, as measured by the time from last search date to publication. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | 90% of included reviews provided the date of search in the full-text article.11.3% of searches in the included reviews were conducted on only one database. Another six 2.0% of articles did not mention how many databases had been searched. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 300 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 860 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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