| Ref ID | 611 |
| First Author | D. Pieper |
| Journal | JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY |
| Year Of Publishing | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(14)00340-0/pdf |
| Keywords |
• General medical • Currency • Searching |
| Problem(s) |
• Outdated searches |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | Germany |
| Aim | To assess whether authors of overviews additionally searched for primary studies and the publication lag (date of the overview: date of the review) in overviews indexed across seven databases up to November 2012. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | More than one-third of the included reviews in the 147 overviews examined were older than 5 years, indicating a high risk of being not up-to-date. Up-to-dateness of reviews was only considered in every fourth review based on analysis of 147 included overviews. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 147 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 5103 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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