| 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 |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | Lebanon |
| Aim | To describe the characteristics of living systematic reviews, and to understand their life cycles. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| 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. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 76 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 3971 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
| Interpretation impacted description |