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.
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
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