- Framework of problems / Comprehensive
- Not updated regularly
- The life and death of living systematic reviews: a methodological survey
| Ref ID | 838 |
| First Author | E.A. Akl |
| Journal | JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY |
| Year Of Publishing | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895435623000264?via%3Dihub |
| Keywords |
COVID General medical Currency Living |
| Problem(s) |
Not updated regularly |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 76 |
| Summary of Findings | From 76 living systematic reviews indexed across Medline, EMBASE, and the Cochrane library between January 2013 and April 2021. Out of all reviews with a ‘planned period of update’ and at least one update (N=19), eight LSRs (42%) had a period since last published version greater than 3 times the planned period of update. No living systematic review included a ‘retirement notice’ in their latest published version. |
| Did the article find that the problem(s) led to qualitative changes in interpretation of the results? | Not Applicable |
| Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study? | Yes |