Category: Systematic Reviews
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The End of an Era: Sunsetting the VA COVID-19 Evidence Reviews Website
As of September 30, 2022, the evidence review website that I have been updating since April 2020 will start to make its way to sunnier pastures. The close of over two years of almost daily updates on COVID-19 evidence reviews feels like closing a significant chapter on a big part of my professional life and…
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My Experience at “Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis Beyond the Health Sciences: A Training for Librarians”
I’ve been interested in taking a systematic review workshop for the past two or three years, since my previous library discussed starting a formal systematic review service. This year, I was finally able to attend a virtual workshop organized by the Cornell University Library, “Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis Beyond the Health Sciences: A Training…
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New MLAConnect Article!
I wrote a short piece called “Let’s Stop Reinventing the Wheel: Locating and Evaluating Existing Systematic and Rapid Reviews on COVID-19 Topics”, which addressed the importance of checking for existing systematic reviews before starting a new one during the COVID-19 pandemic. I also included links to resources of systematic and rapid reviews, like the Cochrane…
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Lessons Learned from My First Living Systematic Review
My team is diving into the world of living systematic reviews (LSR) as part of our efforts to synthesize COVID-19 evidence, and our first LSR was just published in Annals of Internal Medicine: Risks and Impact of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors or Angiotensin-Receptor Blockers on SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Adults https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1515 I was responsible for the initial…
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New Collaborations Lead to an MLA Connect Article
I had a few weeks ago, I had half a blog post written about the rise in COVID-19 reviews calling themselves “systematic reviews” and whether that was appropriate given the rapid development of literature in this area. While I was gathering my thoughts, a listserv email came into my inbox with a request from a…
Kathryn Vela 