Such diverse thinkers as Lao-Tze, Confucius, and US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
have all pointed out that we need to be able to tell the difference between real and assumed …

Background: Systematic reviews are comprehensive, robust, inclusive, transparent, and
reproducible when bringing together the evidence to answer a research question. Various …

Background Previously, we reported on the low recall of Google Scholar (GS) for systematic
review (SR) searching. Here, we test our conclusions further in a prospective study by …

Objective: As the health care field moves towards evidence-based practice, it becomes ever
more critical to conduct systematic reviews of research literature for guiding programmatic …

There is an increasing body of literature on the information specialist's role in supporting
evidencebased health care. In particular, the information component in systematic reviews …

Background The inclusion of an unbiased sample of relevant studies is central to the validity
of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Time-consuming and costly literature searches …

Background Synthesizing research evidence using systematic and rigorous methods has
become a key feature of evidence-based medicine and knowledge translation. Systematic …

Background The purpose and contribution of supplementary search methods in systematic
reviews is increasingly acknowledged. Numerous studies have demonstrated their potential …

Systematic reviews are increasingly used to inform health care decisions, but are expensive
to produce. We explore the use of crowdsourcing (distributing tasks to untrained workers via …