Methods and guidance on conducting, reporting, publishing, and appraising living systematic reviews: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

The living systematic review (LSR) approach is based on ongoing surveillance of the literature and continual updating. Most currently available guidance documents address the conduct, reporting, publishing, and appraisal of systematic reviews (SRs), but are not suitable for LSRs per se and miss additional LSR-specific considerations. In this scoping review, we aim to systematically collate methodological guidance literature on how to conduct, report, publish, and appraise the quality of LSRs and identify current gaps in guidance.

Methods

A standard scoping review methodology was used. We searched MEDLINE (Ovid), EMBASE (Ovid), and The Cochrane Library on August 28, 2021. As for searching gray literature, we looked for existing guidelines and handbook

SUBMITTER: Iannizzi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10722674 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature