How Quickly Do Systematic Reviews Go Out of Date? A Survival Analysis

By K. Shojania, M. Sampson, M. Ansari, Jun Ji, S. Doucette, David Moher. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2007

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Systematic Literature Reviews: An Introduction (2019, background): “Indeed, research continues to be published after the search strategy has been completed, and the results of many SRs become quickly outdated by new publications (Shojania et al., 2007).”
PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA statement for reporting literature searches in systematic reviews (2021, background): “This allows readers to evaluate the currency of each search and understand what literature the search could have potentially identified [125].”
Guidance for Developers of Health Research Reporting Guidelines (2010, result): “The trigger to update is complex and likely similar to other areas of research [40].”
Seventy-Five Trials and Eleven Systematic Reviews a Day: How Will We Ever Keep Up? (2010, neutral): “now many years out of date [26].”
Writing narrative style literature reviews (2015, neutral): “therapeutic area.(10,11) According to some reports on”