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Which review is that? A guide to review types

A typology of literature reviews

Living Systematic Review

 

A Living Systematic Review is an evolving and continuously updated form of a traditional review. It is designed to be dynamic and updated regularly to incorporate new evidence as it becomes available. This approach allows for the review to stay current and reflect the most recent research findings. The process involves continuous monitoring of the literature and when new studies are identified, they are added to the review and the analysis is updated accordingly.

 

Further Reading/Resources


Cochrane Living Systematic Reviews - Resources
 

Lansky, A., & Wethington, H. R. (2020). Living systematic reviews and other approaches for updating evidence. American Journal of Public Health, 110(11), 1687. Full Text
 

Vergara-Merino, L., Verdejo, C., Carrasco, C., & Vargas-Peirano, M. (2020). Living systematic review: new inputs and challenges. Medwave, 20(11), e8092 Full Text
 

Simmonds, M., Elliott, J.H., Synnot, A., Turner, T. (2022). Living Systematic Reviews. In: Evangelou, E., Veroniki, A.A. (eds) Meta-Research. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2345. Humana, New York, NY. Catalogue Link
 

Lansky, A., & Wethington, H. R. (2020). Living systematic reviews and other approaches for updating evidence. American Journal of Public Health, 110(11), 1687. Full Text

 

Example

Michelen, M., Manoharan, L., Elkheir, N., Cheng, V., Dagens, A., Hastie, C., ... & Stavropoulou, C. (2021). Characterising long COVID: a living systematic review. BMJ global health, 6(9), e005427. Full Text


 


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