Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Knowledge Synthesis Group, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada; University of Split, School of Medicine, Split, Croatia 21000.
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Knowledge Synthesis Group, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada.
J Clin Epidemiol. 2021 Jan;129:74-85. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.09.041. Epub 2020 Oct 8.
Rapid reviews were first mentioned in the literature in 1997, when Best et al. described the rapid health technology assessment program in the south and west regions of England but did not provide a formal definition. More recently, the only consensus around a rapid review definition is that a formal definition does not exist. The primary aim of this work is to create a repository of existing definitions and to identify key themes, which may help the knowledge synthesis community in defining rapid review products.
A systematic scoping review was performed to identify definitions used in journal-published rapid reviews written in English between 2017 and January 2019. We searched Medline, Embase Classic + Embase, PsycINFO, ERIC, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, and Web of Science on December 21, 2018. Two reviewers performed study selection and data extraction using a priori-defined methods published in a protocol. Definitions from rapid review methods articles (published from 1997 onward) identified in another scoping review were added to the results, and all definitions were thematically analyzed using NVivo. A quantitative analysis was also performed around studies cited.
Definitions from 216 rapid reviews and 90 rapid review methods articles were included in the thematic analysis. Eight key themes were identified: accelerated/rapid process or approach, variation in methods shortcuts, focus/depth/breadth of scope, compare and contrast to a full traditional systematic review, stakeholder rationale, resource efficiency rationale, systematic approach, bias/limitations. Secondary referencing was a common occurrence.
Thematic analysis performed in this systematic scoping review has allowed for the creation of a suggested definition for rapid reviews that can be used to inform the systematic review community.
快速综述于 1997 年首次在文献中被提及，当时 Best 等人在英格兰南部和西部地区描述了快速卫生技术评估计划，但没有给出正式的定义。最近，关于快速综述定义的唯一共识是，目前还没有正式的定义。这项工作的主要目的是创建一个现有的定义库，并确定关键主题，这可能有助于知识综合社区定义快速综述产品。
我们进行了系统的范围界定综述，以确定在 2017 年至 2019 年 1 月期间发表的英文期刊中的快速综述中使用的定义。我们于 2018 年 12 月 21 日在 Medline、Embase Classic+Embase、PsycINFO、ERIC、Cochrane 图书馆、CINAHL 和 Web of Science 上进行了检索。两名评审员使用在方案中预先定义的方法进行了研究选择和数据提取。在另一项范围界定综述中确定的来自快速综述方法文章（自 1997 年以来发表）的定义也被添加到结果中，并使用 NVivo 对所有定义进行了主题分析。还对引用的研究进行了定量分析。
纳入了 216 篇快速综述和 90 篇快速综述方法文章的定义进行了主题分析。确定了 8 个关键主题：加速/快速的过程或方法、方法简化的变化、重点/深度/广度的范围、与完整的传统系统综述进行比较和对比、利益相关者的理由、资源效率的理由、系统的方法、偏倚/局限性。二次参考文献是常见的。
在这项系统的范围界定综述中进行的主题分析，为快速综述创建了一个建议的定义，可以为系统综述社区提供信息。
