Rapid reviews and the methodological rigor of evidence synthesis: a JBI position statement

Tricco, Andrea C.; Khalil, Hanan; Holly, Cheryl; Feyissa, Garumma Tolu; Godfrey, Christina; Evans, Catrin; Sawchuck, Diane; Sudhakar, Morankar; Asahngwa, Constantine; Abdulahi, Misra; Bonnano, Laura; Aromataris, Edoardo; McInerney, Patricia; Wilson, Rosemary; Pang, Dong; Wang, Zhiwen; Cardoso, Ana Filipa; Peters, Micah D J; Marnie, Casey; Barker, Timothy Hugh; Pollock, Danielle; McArthur, Alexa; Munn, Zachary

doi:10.11124/jbies-21-00371

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“…Rapid reviews are a form of evidence synthesis that can provide timelier decision-making information than standard systematic reviews. They are suitable for emerging research topics where systematic reviews are unpractical [ 17 ]. Rapid reviews typically do not include an exhaustive set of studies, do not involve formal analyses of the study quality, and report findings from prior studies via narrative synthesis by simplifying the evidence synthesis process [ 18 ].…”

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Digital Twins for Managing Health Care Systems: Rapid Literature Review

Elkefi¹,

Asan²

2022

J Med Internet Res

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Background Although most digital twin (DT) applications for health care have emerged in precision medicine, DTs can potentially support the overall health care process. DTs (twinned systems, processes, and products) can be used to optimize flows, improve performance, improve health outcomes, and improve the experiences of patients, doctors, and other stakeholders with minimal risk. Objective This paper aims to review applications of DT systems, products, and processes as well as analyze the potential of these applications for improving health care management and the challenges associated with this emerging technology. Methods We performed a rapid review of the literature and reported available studies on DTs and their applications in health care management. We searched 5 databases for studies published between January 2002 and January 2022 and included peer-reviewed studies written in English. We excluded studies reporting DT usage to support health care practice (organ transplant, precision medicine, etc). Studies were analyzed based on their contribution toward DT technology to improve user experience in health care from human factors and systems engineering perspectives, accounting for the type of impact (product, process, or performance/system level). Challenges related to the adoption of DTs were also summarized. Results The DT-related studies aimed at managing health care systems have been growing over time from 0 studies in 2002 to 17 in 2022, with 7 published in 2021 (N=17 studies). The findings reported on applications categorized by DT type (system: n=8; process: n=5; product: n=4) and their contributions or functions. We identified 4 main functions of DTs in health care management including safety management (n=3), information management (n=2), health management and well-being promotion (n=3), and operational control (n=9). DTs used in health care systems management have the potential to avoid unintended or unexpected harm to people during the provision of health care processes. They also can help identify crisis-related threats to a system and control the impacts. In addition, DTs ensure privacy, security, and real-time information access to all stakeholders. Furthermore, they are beneficial in empowering self-care abilities by enabling health management practices and providing high system efficiency levels by ensuring that health care facilities run smoothly and offer high-quality care to every patient. Conclusions The use of DTs for health care systems management is an emerging topic. This can be seen in the limited literature supporting this technology. However, DTs are increasingly being used to ensure patient safety and well-being in an organized system. Thus, further studies aiming to address the challenges of health care systems challenges and improve their performance should investigate the potential of DT technology. In addition, such technologies should embed human factors and ergonomics principles to ensure better design and more successful impact on patient and doctor experiences.

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Digital Twins for Managing Health Care Systems: Rapid Literature Review

Elkefi¹,

Asan²

2022

J Med Internet Res

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“…The literature search strategy followed rapid review procedure ( 14 ). The period 1st January 1995 to 14th July 2022 used covers the period since HJP were first reported ( 15 ).…”

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Health economics of health justice partnerships: A rapid review of the economic returns to society of promoting access to legal advice

Granger

Genn

Edwards

2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundWelfare legal problems and inadequate access to support services follow both the socioeconomic and the health inequalities gradients. Health Justice Partnership (HJP) is an international practitioner-led movement which brings together legal and healthcare professionals to address the root causes of ill health from negative social determinants. The aim of this paper was to identify the current evidence base for the cost-effectiveness of HJP or comparable welfare advice services.MethodsA rapid review format was used, with a literature search of PubMed, CINAHL, ASSIA, PsycINFO, Medline, Cochrane Library, Global Health and Web of Science identifying 496 articles. After removal of duplicates, 176 papers were screened on titles and abstracts, and 20 papers met the eligibility criteria. Following a full-text screening, a further 14 papers were excluded due to lack of economic evaluations. Excluded papers' reference lists were scanned, with a further 3 further papers identified which met the inclusion criteria. A final pool of nine studies were included in this review.ResultsStudies focused on the financial benefit to service users, with only three studies reporting on cost effectiveness of the interventions. Only one study reported on the economic impact of change of health in service users and one study reported on changes in health service use.ConclusionThis review highlights the current evidence gap in evaluating the cost-effectiveness of adequate access to free legal welfare advice and representation. We propose that an interdisciplinary research agenda between health economics and legal-health services is required to address this research gap.

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“…The study has the following two limitations: first, we have searched the following databases-PubMed, PubMed Central, and Google; therefore, we may have missed some other literature that is published in journals that are not indexed in PubMed and PubMed Central. Secondly, the aim of the rapid review was to identify the literature on patient safety in Tanzania in terms of its key findings and issues in order to inform future improvement steps; in the execution of the review, we may not have adequately fulfilled all the steps but we believe we have tried to the best to be comprehensive and transparent as possible in the process [119]. The results obtained are adequate for informing and understanding of patient safety efforts in the past two decades (2002-2022); and hence, can contribute to future efforts to ensure patient safety in Tanzania for the period 2022-2030.…”

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Patient Safety Efforts in Tanzania: A Rapid Review of Two-Decades Efforts (2002-2022) to Inform Interventions towards Attainment of 2030 Targets

Hokororo¹,

Bahegwa²,

Ngowi³

et al. 2022

AID

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Introduction: The need to address the problem of patient safety has been a focus of World Health Assembly (WHA) meetings of 2002, 2019 and 2021. The 2019 WHA Resolution urged the Member States to take action on patient safety. We aimed to review patient safety efforts in Tanzania from 2002 to 2022 to inform improvement efforts towards the 2030 target. Methods: A rapid literature review was conducted between January 2002 and April 2022.We searched Google, PubMed and PubMed Central in April and May 2022 using the following search terms: PubMed-"patient safety Tanzania", "blood safety in Tanzania", "safe surgery Tanzania", and "healthcare-associated infections Tanzania"; Google-"blood safety in Tanzania", injection safety in Tanzania", "infection prevention and control", "radiation safety in health facilities in Tanzania"; and PubMed Central-"injection safety in Tanzania. Results: The search identified 4160 articles, of which 4053 were removed in initial screening; 21 were duplicates, giving 86 relevant articles for full screening. Of the 86 articles, 04 were removed after the full screening, hence remaining with 82 articles. Among the 82 eligible articles, 27 are on IPC, 26 on safe surgery, 12 on blood safety, 07 on radiation safety, 06 on injection safety, and 02 on medication safety. One article was relevant to-blood safety, IPC and injection safety; and one article was relevant to-IPC and injection

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Rapid reviews and the methodological rigor of evidence synthesis: a JBI position statement

Cited by 29 publications

References 34 publications

Digital Twins for Managing Health Care Systems: Rapid Literature Review

Digital Twins for Managing Health Care Systems: Rapid Literature Review

Health economics of health justice partnerships: A rapid review of the economic returns to society of promoting access to legal advice

Patient Safety Efforts in Tanzania: A Rapid Review of Two-Decades Efforts (2002-2022) to Inform Interventions towards Attainment of 2030 Targets

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