A review of the reporting of web searching to identify studies for Cochrane systematic reviews

@article{Briscoe2018ARO,
  title={A review of the reporting of web searching to identify studies for Cochrane systematic reviews},
  author={Simon Briscoe},
  journal={Research Synthesis Methods},
  year={2018},
  volume={9},
  pages={89 - 99}
}
  • S. Briscoe
  • Published 1 March 2018
  • Computer Science
  • Research Synthesis Methods
The literature searches that are used to identify studies for inclusion in a systematic review should be comprehensively reported. This ensures that the literature searches are transparent and reproducible, which is important for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a systematic review and re‐running the literature searches when conducting an update review. Web searching using search engines and the websites of topically relevant organisations is sometimes used as a supplementary… 
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The Australian digital Online Farm Trials database increases the quality of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in grains crop research

The Online Farm Trials (OFT) database is a digital database of crop research field trial data from across Australia that has the potential for use as a discipline-specific source of grey literature to inform systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

Serving Evidence Syntheses: Improving literature retrieval in systematic reviews

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Do governments care about socioeconomic inequalities in health? Narrative review of reports of EU‐15 countries

Given the current COVID-19 pandemic situation and its economic consequences, EU governments need to continue monitoring the existing inequalities in health and to act transversely in all public policies.

Dementia Primary Prevention Policies and Strategies and Their Local Implementation: A Scoping Review Using England as a Case Study

The limitations identified in this review could be addressed through development of a national policy focused specifically on dementia prevention, which would be important for such a policy to cover the full range of modifiable risk factors relevant to dementia.

Current Evidence in the Management of Premalignant Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation

Abstract Incidental premalignant pancreatic cystic lesions (pPCLs) are increasingly being detected in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The impact of chronic…

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