Survey of instructions for authors on how to report an update of a systematic review: guidance is needed.

Evidence-Based Medicine Pub Date : 2017-04-01 Epub Date: 2017-01-30 DOI:10.1136/ebmed-2016-110609
Dawid Pieper, Tim Mathes
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Abstract

Systematic reviews have become the cornerstone of evidence-based healthcare. Approximately half of the systematic reviews are out of date after 5.5 years, and keeping them up to date remains a huge challenge. Despite new guidance on when and how to update systematic reviews, there seems to be a lack of guidance on how to report updates of systematic reviews. Therefore, we decided to systematically analyse instruction for authors in biomedical journals regarding guidance on reporting updates of systematic reviews. We conducted a survey investigating 250 journals. The journal list was derived by a twofold strategy. First, we chose a list of journals that were included in a recently published survey of systematic reviews. This list was augmented by a PubMed search for published updates of systematic reviews. For each journal, we checked the instructions for authors for any content or links related to updating systematic reviews in September 2016. Out of 250 journals, we found only one with guidance clearly related to updates of systematic reviews, namely the BioMed Central journal, Systematic Reviews Nevertheless, concrete guidance on reporting is lacking as it is stated that authors are encouraged to be innovative in how to report and present systematic review updates. This makes clear that there remains a fundamental uncertainty of how authors willing to update a previously published systematic review should act as even the leading journal in evidence syntheses does not have clear guidance. Debate is necessary on how to report updates of systematic reviews.

关于如何报告系统综述更新的作者说明调查:需要指导。
系统综述已成为循证医疗的基石。大约有一半的系统综述在 5.5 年后就会过时,而保持系统综述的更新仍然是一个巨大的挑战。尽管在何时以及如何更新系统综述方面有了新的指导,但在如何报告系统综述的更新方面似乎缺乏指导。因此,我们决定系统地分析生物医学期刊中有关系统综述更新报告指南的作者指南。我们对 250 种期刊进行了调查。期刊列表是通过双重策略得出的。首先,我们选择了近期发表的系统综述调查中所包含的期刊列表。此外,我们还在 PubMed 上搜索了已发表的系统综述更新,从而扩充了这份期刊列表。对于每份期刊,我们都检查了作者须知中是否有与 2016 年 9 月更新系统综述相关的内容或链接。在 250 种期刊中,我们发现只有一种期刊有明确的与系统综述更新相关的指导,即 BioMed Central 期刊《系统综述》(Systematic Reviews)。这清楚地表明,即使是证据综述领域的权威期刊也没有明确的指导,对于愿意更新以前发表的系统综述的作者应该如何行动,仍然存在根本性的不确定性。有必要就如何报告系统综述的更新展开讨论。
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