Combining abbreviated literature searches with single-reviewer screening: three case studies of rapid reviews.

Systematic Reviews
Lisa AffengruberGerald Gartlehner

Abstract

Decision-makers increasingly request rapid answers to clinical or public health questions. To save time, personnel, and financial resources, rapid reviews streamline the methodological steps of the systematic review process. We aimed to explore the validity of a rapid review approach that combines a substantially abbreviated literature search with a single-reviewer screening of abstracts and full texts using three case studies. We used a convenience sample of three ongoing Cochrane reviews as reference standards. Two reviews addressed oncological topics and one addressed a public health topic. For each of the three topics, three reviewers screened the literature independently. Our primary outcome was the change in conclusions between the rapid reviews and the respective Cochrane reviews. In case the rapid approach missed studies, we recalculated the meta-analyses for the main outcomes and asked Cochrane review authors if the new body of evidence would change their original conclusion compared with the reference standards. Additionally, we assessed the sensitivity of the rapid review approach compared with the results of the original Cochrane reviews. For the two oncological topics (case studies 1 and 2), the three rapid reviews...Continue Reading

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Nov 25, 2020·Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen·Thomas Nordhausen, Julian Hirt

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