In many areas of medicine the rapid accumulation of evidence is unmanageable. The covid-19 pandemic has further accelerated the production of research and produced an urgent need for timely access to high quality, up-to-date syntheses of this evidence. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are the best way to aggregate and appraise studies that examine a particular research question, but they take time to produce. Even when published rapidly, they may lag behind accumulated evidence by months or years. Living systematic reviews overcome this problem by allowing authors to update previously vetted and peer reviewed evidence syntheses in response to relevant new information. 1 2 5 Cochrane Community. Living systematic reviews. https://community.cochrane.
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