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Living evidence syntheses: the emerging opportunity to increase evidence‐informed health policy in Australia

Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Living evidence syntheses are continually updated, systematically appraised summaries of research evidence. These may include living systematic reviews, living evidence briefs or living evidence-based guidelines.1, 2 Compared with non-living approaches, which are onerous to produce and become rapidly out of date, living evidence syntheses provide health system decision makers with highly reliable and, where appropriate, contextualised summaries of evidence as evidence emerges in near real-time. The Box illustrates the differences between a living and non-living evidence review. This revolutionary method of rapid evidence gathering, appraisal and synthesis, known as living evidence, has become feasible with methodological and technological advances in the past five to ten years.
DOI: 10.5694/mja2.52368
Authors: Samantha P Chakraborty, Alex Collie, Rebecca Hodder, Suman S Majumdar, Kim Sutherland, Bernie Towler, Joshua Vogel, Andrew Wilson, Luke Wolfenden, Sally Green, Tari Turner
Institutions: Monash University, University of Newcastle Australia, Burnet Institute, Government of New South Wales, NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation, Australian Government, Department of Health and Aged Care, The University of Sydney
Language: English
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,240
OpenAlex ID: W4400055992
FWCI: 1.666
Cites: 22
Cited by: 6
Related to: 10