When and how to update systematic reviews: consensus and checklist

Affiliations

• ¹ Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK [email protected].
• ² Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ³ Cochrane Editorial Unit, Cochrane Central Executive, London, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada Cochrane GRADEing Methods Group, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ⁵ Cochrane GRADEing Methods Group, Ottawa, ON, Canada Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
• ⁶ Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University.
• ⁷ Evidence-based Practice Center Program, Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality, Rockville, MD, USA.
• ⁸ Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK.
• ⁹ Cochrane Upper Gastrointestinal and Pancreatic Diseases Group, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ¹¹ Lefebvre Associates, Oxford, UK.
• ¹² Kaiser Permanente National Guideline Program, Portland, OR, USA.
• ¹³ Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁴ Cochrane Informatics and Knowledge Management, Cochrane Central Executive, Freiburg, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry, Plymouth, UK.
• ¹⁶ Department of Clinical Policy, American College of Physicians,Philadelphia, PA, USA Guidelines International Network, Pitlochry, UK.
• ¹⁷ Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁸ Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
• ¹⁹ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada Biostatistics Unit, Centre for Evaluation, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
• ²⁰ Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ²¹ University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ²² Cochrane Airways Group, Population Health Research Institute, St George's, University of London, London, UK.
• ²³ Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.