Updated report - Strategy for systematic reviews

Our search strategies have retrieved 1,848,466 references from different databases and other sources, which have been subsequently classified by human screeners and a machine learning algorithm, leading to a total of 515,182 systematic reviews.

We have summarised the systematic review selection process in the following figure:

Updated summary of results Updated Dec 20, 2023

Records identified through Epistemonikos strategy for systematic reviews 
1,822,333

Records after duplicates removed 
1,020,355

Potentially eligible systematic reviews 
1,013,516

Systematic reviews identified through other sources 
26,133

Excluded
498,334

Excluded by machine
381,977

Excluded by collaborators
116,357

Included systematic reviews
515,182

Included by machine
226,409

Included by collaborators
288,773

IDENTIFICATION
SCREENING & ELIGIBILITY
INCLUDED

Year distribution of systematic reviews relevant for health decision-making:

This graph represents a snapshot of the current database status, showing the systematic reviews fulfilling our inclusion criteria