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Rapid reviews offer a pragmatic approach for health policy-makers needing timely evidence. This paper guides methodological choices to ensure rigor and usefulness in rapid evidence synthesis.

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  • Health Policy Research
  • Evidence Synthesis Methodologies

Background:

  • Health policy decisions often require rapid evidence synthesis due to time and resource constraints.
  • Rapid reviews serve as a practical alternative to comprehensive systematic reviews for policy-makers.
  • Ensuring the rigor of rapid review methods is crucial for reliable policy development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To summarize current methods and practices for conducting rapid reviews.
  • To present key considerations and options for guiding methodological choices in rapid reviews.
  • To provide interim guidance for researchers conducting rapid reviews.

Main Methods:

  • Stakeholder engagement and clear research protocols are essential for focused rapid reviews.
  • Tailoring literature searches, study screening, data extraction, and risk-of-bias assessments are key streamlining strategies.
  • Descriptive synthesis is commonly used, often with single reviewer involvement and verification, alongside standardized reporting.

Main Results:

  • Early and ongoing engagement with review requesters is paramount for successful rapid reviews.
  • Methodological choices in rapid reviews should be tailored to the specific topic and available resources.
  • Streamlined approaches, such as single reviewer use and descriptive synthesis, expedite the review process.

Conclusions:

  • Transparent methodological choices, informed by stakeholders, are vital for the utility of rapid reviews.
  • The impact of streamlined methods on review conclusions requires further investigation.
  • Interim guidance is proposed due to the lack of internationally accepted standards for rapid reviews.