Systematic literature reviews play a vital role in identifying the best available evidence for health and social care policy. The resources required to produce systematic reviews can be significant, and a key to the success of any review is the search strategy used to identify relevant literature. However, the methods used to construct search strategies can be complex, time consuming, resource intensive and error prone. In this review, we examine the state of the art in resolving complex structured information needs, focusing primarily on the healthcare context. We analyse the literature to identify key challenges and issues and explore appropriate solutions and workarounds. From this analysis we propose a way forward to facilitate trust and transparency and to aid explainability, reproducibility and replicability through a set of key design principles for tools to support the development of search strategies in systematic literature reviews.
翻译:系统文献审查在为保健和社会护理政策确定现有最佳证据方面发挥着至关重要的作用。系统文献审查所需要的资源可能很重要,而任何审查取得成功的关键是用于确定相关文献的搜索战略。然而,用于制定搜索战略的方法可能复杂、耗时、资源密集和容易出错。在本次审查中,我们审查了解决复杂结构化信息需求方面的先进经验,主要侧重于卫生保健背景。我们分析了文献,以查明关键的挑战和问题,并探索适当的解决办法和变通办法。我们从这一分析中提出了促进信任和透明度的方法,并通过一套关键设计原则协助解释、可复制和可复制性,用于支持系统文献审查中的搜索战略的发展。