Evidence map of liver surgery: study protocol of a living systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The amount of scientific data on liver surgery is exploding. There is a critical unmet need to develop tools that will facilitate navigating the literature and offer easy, fast and accurate access to data with a high level of evidence. Evidence maps (EM) combining living systematic reviews (SR) and user-friendly synthesis with graphs and figures were developed for this purpose in other medical fields and showed promising results but remain yet unavailable in liver surgery. The present study protocol aims to generate an EM in liver surgery, gathering randomised clinical trials (RCT) and SR.

Methods and analysis

A systematic search will be conducted in the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Web of Science, Embase and Medline to identify all RCT and SR

SUBMITTER: Heersche S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11865728 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature