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Dear members of the EUPHA-HTA section,
Hereby I would like to draw your attention on this project aimed at identifying priority questions that need to be answered regarding the “doing/performing part” of rapid reviews. Researchers and stakeholders, e.g., guideline and policy developers, end-users (public and patients), are welcome to participate.
Please find below the message of the research team and the link to the survey.
Best regards
Chiara de Waure
Rapid Systematic Reviews, also called Rapid Reviews, are an evidence summary method that accelerates the process of conducting a traditional systematic review through streamlining or omitting a variety of methods to produce evidence in a resource-efficient manner.
The Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, which is a joint Concordia University, UQAM and CIUSSS-NIM research centre, is recruiting participants for the following project: Identifying priority questions regarding rapid reviews methodology: an eDelphi process.
The aim of this project is to identify priority questions that need to be answered regarding the “doing/performing part” of rapid review methods, for example: search strategies; study selection (level one and two screening); data extraction; risk of bias appraisal; and data synthesis.
Participants will be part of an eDelphi process, rating and ranking items regarding rapid review methods. There will be three rounds, sent about 1 month apart, with each round taking approximately 20 minutes to complete.
Participants need to fit one of the following criteria:
1) Researchers in evidence synthesis, who have at least 5 years of experience designing or delivering evidence synthesis, have participated in at least one rapid review, and would rate themselves as ≥7 [on a 0 (no expertise) to 10 (expert)] for their knowledge on evidence synthesis.
2) Stakeholders, e.g., guideline and policy developers, end-users (public and patients), who have had previous experiences in participating in any aspect of evidence synthesis.
If you consider yourself to be in one of these two groups, we would like you to participate in the study.
Your participation is voluntary. You can stop your participation anytime. No compensation will be provided to participants.
This project will play an important part if providing the evidence synthesis community with the most relevant questions that experts need to answer, and shaping the future research agenda. Ultimately, this work will lead to the generation of faster and more useful answers to questions that can be incorporated into policy and guidelines development. For more information, please access .
The survey is now open, and it will close on July 4th.
If you have any questions regarding the study, please contact the research team:
- Ariany Marques Vieira, PhD Student Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University. Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, CIUSSS du Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal ().
- Professor Simon Bacon, Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre co-director, CIUSSS du Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal. ()
- Geneviève Szczepanik, Research Coordinator of the Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, CIUSSS du Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal ()
Thank you for your consideration.
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