Next steps
1. Invite more information specialists with appropriatecontent expertise to be involved in the project
2. Complete all SuRe Info chapters by mid-2015
3. Continue updating all chapters twice per year
4. Continue to carry out targeted marketing of the webresource
Identifying information retrieval research for systematic reviewsand other evidence syntheses beyond effectiveness reviews:
Summarized Research in Information Retrieval (SuRe Info)Carol Lefebvre1, Sari Ormstad2, Jaana Isojärvi3, Patrice X. Chalon4, Mick Arber5, Sigrid Droste6, Steven Duffy7,
Julie Glanville5, Su Golder8, David Kaunelis9, Kristin Bakke Lysdahl10, Hannah Wood5, Kath Wright8
MethodsBackground / Objective
To date, Cochrane has focused primarily on publishing systematic reviews of the effectiveness ofhealthcare interventions and subsequently reviews of diagnostic test accuracy. Cochrane isconsidering extending its remit to evidence syntheses in other areas, such as economicevaluations, prognosis and qualitative research.
Under MECIR (Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews), if aCochrane Review has specific eligibility criteria around study design to address adverse effects,economic issues or qualitative research questions, it is now mandatory that searches must beundertaken to address these issues.
We present a new web resource, SuRe Info, where these search issues, together with others, arecovered.
We run topic-specific search strategies inselected relevant databases.
Publications fulfilling the SuRe Info inclusioncriteria receive a structured abstractcontaining a brief critical appraisal(“publication appraisal”) prepared by oneSuRe Info information specialist and checkedby another.
The key messages from the appraisals aresummarized into topic-specific chapters.
Results
Chapters on general search methods common across all healthtechnologies
Chapters describing the methods to use when searchingfor specific aspects of health technologies
Sources to search:
How many sources to search? not yet started
Value of searching different sources not yet started
Value of searching for different publication types/formats not yet started
Service providers and search interfaces ongoing
Designing search strategies:
Strategy development ongoing
Search filters completed
Other limits: language, date ongoing
Peer reviewing search strategies ongoing
Documenting and reporting the search process not yet started
Health problem and current use of technologycompleted
Description and technical characteristics of technologycompleted
Safety completed
Diagnostic accuracy completed
Clinical effectiveness ongoing
Costs and economic evaluation completed
Ethical analysis ongoing
Organizational aspects not yet started
Social aspects ongoing
Legal aspects completed
1 Lefebvre Associates Ltd, United Kingdom; 2 [email protected] , Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services(NOKC), Norway; 3 [email protected] , National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finnish Office for HealthTechnology Assessment (Finohta), Finland; 4 Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE), Belgium; 5 York HealthEconomics Consortium (YHEC), University of York, United Kingdom; 6 Institute for Quality and Efficiency in HealthCare (IQWiG), Germany; 7 Kleijnen Systematic Reviews Ltd, York, United Kingdom; 8 Centre for Reviews andDissemination (CRD), University of York, United Kingdom; 9 Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies inHealth (CADTH), Canada; 10 Centre for Medical Ethics, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Norway
Conclusion
SuRe Info is a new open-access web resource that providesresearch-based summaries relating to information retrieval forevidence synthesis including systematic reviews.
SuRe Info provides a valuable addition to the informationprovided in The Cochrane Handbooks.
SuRe Info is published as a section of the HTAi Vortal Included publications receive a publication appraisal The key messages from the appraisals are summarizedinto topic-specific chapters
http://www.sure-info.org
