Half of Cochrane reviews were published more than two years after the protocol

Ref ID 599
First Author M. Z. Andersen
Journal JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Year Of Publishing 2020
URL https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32413390/
Keywords • Cochrane
• General medical
• Protocols
• Currency
Problem(s) • Untimely (taking too long) or resource intensive
Article Type Empirical
Article Subtype Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review
First Author Country Denmark
Aim To assess the time from publication of protocol to publication of review for Cochrane reviews from the Cochrane Database published between 1995- 2019
Level of Investigation Descriptive
Summary of Findings Median publication time for all reviews analysed was 2.0 years with interquartile range of 1.2 year to 3.4 years and a full range of 0 days to 21.6 years
Number of systematic reviews included 6764
Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed 8201
Treatment impacted No
Treatment impacted description
Interpretation impacted Not Applicable
Interpretation impacted description