New resources ● Members of Rapid Reviews provide updated guidance on methods for conducting rapid reviews of effectiveness in the BMJ. ● Members of Economics introduce a protocol to assess the cost-effectiveness of targeted/selective newborn screening compared with universal screening for sickle cell disease in JBI Evidence Synthesis. ● Members of Co-Production introduce a protocol to develop the SPIRIT-Children and CONSORT-Children in Trials. ● Members of Prognosis discuss the evaluation of clinical prediction models in a new series published in the BMJ. ● Members of Rapid Reviews introduce three new papers of methodological guidance from the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. ● Members of Comparing Multiple Interventions outline the continuing controversies about the network meta-analysis approach in Research Synthesis and Methods. ● Members of Statistics evaluate the proportion of clinical study reports that support medicine approvals available for public download in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. ● Members of Statistics and Bias conduct a methodological review to compile a preliminary list of concepts related to bias in network meta-analysis in Systematic Reviews. ● Members of Comparing Multiple Interventions and Bias assessed the consistency in effect estimates between preprint and subsequent journal articles of COVID-19 randomized controlled trials in BMC Medical Research Methodology. ● Members of GRADEing conducted user-experience testing interviews of an evidence-to-decision framework for selecting essential medicines in PLOS Global Public Health. ● Members of Adverse Effects evaluate the proportion of registered clinical trials with published study protocols which do not publish their results in JAMA Network Open. ● Members of Bias, Equity, Qualitative and Implementation and Rapid Reviews investigate methods proposed for monitoring the implementation of evidence-based research in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.
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