The interaction between structured digital systematic reviews and guidelines: shaping the future. A workshop in collaboration with GINTech and GRADETech

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Brandt L1, Brozek J2, Thomas J3, Mavergames C4, Kunnamo I5, Rada G6, Mitchell A7, Karge T8
1MAGIC - Making GRADE the irresistible Choice
2Cochrane GRADEing, Cochrane Airways
3EPPI-Centre, UCL. 'Transform' project; CQIMG
4Cochrane Central Executive Team
5Duodecim Medical Publications Ltd.
6Epistemonikos foundation
7National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), UK
8Charite, Germany
Abstract
Objectives: To foster collaboration between organizations developing and using digital tools for systematic reviews and guidelines by sharing experiences, challenges, methods and solutions about how digital platforms should work. Participants will receive information about current resources, and a chance to contribute to future development.

Description: New digital tools enable structured digital authoring, process support and publishing of living systematic reviews and guidelines. Moving from pdfs or simple html without much usable structure - where copy-pasting is the rule - to digitally structured systematic reviews where data can be extracted automatically into digital guidelines, holds benefits, but also challenges to address.

We start with an introduction with real examples, followed by small group discussion. Each group will address a different topic facilitated by two moderators from several tech-working groups.
Possible topics include:
1. What data from digital systematic reviews are needed for guidelines?
2. What happens when systematic reviews are updated?
3. Integrating systems and platforms.
4. Using references across platforms.
5. PICO (population, intervention, comparator, outcomes) ontology: using terminology to code content across platforms.

All groups will present a set of challenges, possible solutions and needs for the future, followed by a short discussion. We will post outcomes accessible on both the GIN tech and Cochrane tech websites.