1. Tackling the Twin Beasts of
Information Overload and
Reviewer Workload
Hilda Bastian
Cochrane Colloquium
Vienna
5 October 2015
@hildabast
hildabastian.net
2. Views expressed in this presentation are
personal and do not necessarily reflect
the views of:
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
• National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• US Department of Health and Human Services
5. 1979:
14 trials a day
• Cochrane Database Systematic Reviews by the numbers (Cochrane.org)
• Moher et al (2007). Epidemiology & reporting characteristics of systematic
reviews. PLOS Medicine.
• 2014 update of Moher (2007) by Page et al, Cochrane Vienna ID RO 4.6
Data updated from 2007 to 2013
11. • More support needed for
methodology research
• Better retrievability &
linkages of trials &
systematic reviews
• Language barrier in
systematic reviewing
12. • Minimize bias in knowledge translation & dissemination
• Optimize peer-to-peer use of systematic reviews
• User-friendliness