2020, MEDICINE, BOOK REVIEW, Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions 

Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia 

The last 25 years in health have been notable for the emergence of evidence synthesis and its role in making sense of exploding global research output. By any measure, systematic reviews are a major feature of the research landscape, helped in part by their versatility and capacity for reinvention. Review labels continue to proliferate, expanding what is both conceivable and feasible to produce. Historically, what was mostly a binary choice between traditional reviews and systematic reviews is now a smorgasbord that encompasses reviews variously described as scoping, mapping, narrative, umbrella, mini, living, rapid and even ultra-rapid. You are not just imagining this burgeoning array of review types - a recent study identified 48 types, categorised into seven families (Sutton et al., 2019). Although fragmentation and specialisation of reviews may create definitional confusion, it is also a sign of a dynamic research area that is continually exploring ways of developing knowledge outputs to meet the diverse needs of decision-makers. 

Open Access 

McDonald, S. (2020). Fit for the Challenge: Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia, 1(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.55999/johila.v1i2.29