What is it about?
The concept of living evidence has been particularly relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the rapidly evolving nature of the virus, the urgent need for timely information, and the continuous emergence of new research findings. Although the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of evidence systems, researchers and funders of research should rigorously test the living-evidence model across diverse domains to further advance and optimize its methodology.
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Why is it important?
Systematic reviews that are out-of-date delay policy-making, create controversy, and erode trust in research. To avoid this issue, it is preferable to keep summaries of the study evidence. Living evidence is a synthesis approach that provides up-to-date rigorous research evidence summaries to decision-makers. This strategy is particularly useful in rapidly expanding research domains, uncertain existing evidence, and new research that may impact policy or practice, ensuring that physicians have access to the most recent evidence.
Perspectives
Fourty years ago the concept of evidence-based health care (starting as evidence-based obstetrics/medicine)was new and it took time to be accepted by clinicians and the like. Now is the time to start thinking about living reviews that are continuously updated as and when new evidence is published from primary research.
Prof. Edwin R van Teijlingen
Bournemouth University
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This page is a summary of: Need for evidence synthesis for quality control of healthcare decision-making, Nepal Journal of Epidemiology, December 2023, Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL),
DOI: 10.3126/nje.v13i3.61004.
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