Living cumulative network meta-analysis to reduce waste in research: A paradigmatic shift for systematic reviews?

BMC Medicine

Commentary

Gordon H. Guyatt¹  Romina Brignardello-Petersen²  Per Olav Vandvik³ 

[1] Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;Evidence-Based Dentistry Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile;Department of Medicine, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Gjøvik, Norway;Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, University of Oslo, PB 7004 St.Olavsplass, 0130, Oslo, Norway;

关键词: Systematic reviews;    Network meta-analysis;    Evidence-based medicine;    Knowledge translation;    Clinical practice guidelines;    GRADE;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12916-016-0596-4

 received in 2016-03-07, accepted in 2016-03-09,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

In a recent research article in BMC Medicine, Créquit and colleagues demonstrate how published systematic reviews in lung cancer provide a fragmented, out-of-date picture of the evidence for all treatments. The results and conclusions drawn from this study, based on cumulative network meta-analyses (NMA) of evidence from randomized clinical trials over time, are quite compelling. The inherent waste of research resulting from incomplete evidence synthesis has wide-reaching implications for a range of target groups including developers of systematic reviews and guidelines and their end-users, health care professionals and patients at the point of care. Building on emerging concepts for living systematic reviews and NMA, the authors propose "living cumulative NMA" as a potential solution and paradigmatic shift. Here we describe how recent innovations within authoring, dissemination, and updating of systematic reviews and trustworthy guidelines may greatly facilitate the production of living NMA. Some additional challenges need to be solved for NMA in general, and for living cumulative NMA in particular, before a paradigmatic shift for systematic reviews can become reality.Please see related research article: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-016-0555-0

【 授权许可】

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© Vandvik et al. 2016