Low-calorie sweeteners and health outcomes: an evaluation of rapid versus traditional evidence mapping.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Scientific evidence related to environmental exposures continues to mount. Tools such as evidence mapping support decision making, but can be resource- and time-intensive. We explored "rapid evidence mapping" to efficiently map scientific evidence using rigorous and transparent methodologies. We undertook a proof-of-concept case study on the topic of low-calorie sweeteners. Our intent was to conduct a traditional evidence map based on the same evidence base from a prior rapid evidence map case study to compare approaches, findings, and conclusions. We searched the literature, screened full text of studies, manually tagged and categorized articles, and created visualizations to map the evidence.

Results

We conducted full-text screening of studies from the prior rapi

SUBMITTER: Lam J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8858516 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature