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	• Living • General medical • Currency • COVID
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?	N/A
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study?	Yes