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ArticleBMJ evidence-based medicine2024

Rapid reviews methods series: considerations and recommendations for evidence synthesis in rapid reviews.

Valerie J King, Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit, Elizabeth Shaw, Declan Devane, Leila Kahwati, Meera Viswanathan, Gerald Gartlehner, Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group

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Article in BMJ evidence-based medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Rapid Reviews: A Tutorial.Cochrane evidence synthesis and methods · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Valerie J KingCenter for Evidence-based Policy, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, Portland, Oregon, USA kingv@ohsu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5138-6925
Barbara Nussbaumer-StreitEvidence-based Medicine and Evaluation - Cochrane Austria, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7622-843X
Elizabeth ShawCenter for Evidence-based Policy, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, Portland, Oregon, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4693-9956
Declan DevaneSchool of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9393-7075
Leila KahwatiRTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6963-2848
Meera ViswanathanRTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3486-8126
Gerald GartlehnerEvidence-based Medicine and Evaluation - Cochrane Austria, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5531-3678
Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Evidence-Based PracticeMethodsSystematic Reviews as Topic

Identifiers

PMID39481881
PMCPMC11671917

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