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