Thursday, 3 October 2013

Systematic Review in 5 minutes

Exciting news - a systematic review in five minutes, who wouldn’t want that? Well, earlier this week the people at Trip Database released the innovative Trip Rapid Review system, a system to perform a semi-automated review and synthesis of the literature in five minutes. Not quite a systematic review, but getting there. In many ways it’s a very interesting proof of concept! It’s free to use and is available via a button next to the search box. A few links to help explain and illustrate the service:

A screencast showing it working
How it works
Early test results
A worked example using SSRIs and hot flushes/flashes

A significant stimulus to the above work was their frustration with the current status quo with systematic review production. For further details see critique of the Cochrane Collaboration

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