Living rapid reviews: methods for addressing study results with limited relevance to current context

This webinar explored methods for living rapid reviews that directly respond to decision/policy maker requests for evidence syntheses with short turn around times. An emerging methodological issue relates to how to deal with study results that have limited relevance to the current context. For example, in a living rapid review on the role of schools and childcare on transmission of COVID-19, study results from early in the pandemic may provide limited insight given so much more is now known about transmission of the virus, the emergence of variants of concern, and the availability of vaccines. During this webinar we described decisions we have made to address this issue and what impact this has had on study inclusion in a number of our living rapid reviews.