90,000 records and still counting: Cochrane COVID-19 Study Register production is enabled by machine learning and Cochrane Crowd

The  Cochrane COVID-19 Study Register is a freely-available, continually-updated, annotated reference collection of human primary studies on COVID-19. It launched on April 1, 2020 with 1146 records. After 18 months, the register has grown to nearly 80 times its original size and now includes over 90,000 validated COVID-19 study record s! The register has contributed to 39 published Cochrane reviews and 189 non-Cochrane publications. Making an impactThe  CEOsys evidence ecosystem for COVID-19 research is an association of 20 German university hospitals and partner organizations, whose goal it is to compile, summarize, and assess the certainty of results coming from scientific studies examining the most pressing questions about prevention, treatment, and consequences of COVID-19. Based on this evidence, the project creates recommendations for action. Systematic review producer and Cochrane review co-author, Ina Monsef, reflects on the Cochrane COVID-19 Study Register ’s contribution to the CEOsys: The Cochrane COVID-19 Study Register is a primary source of evidence for reviews produced within the CEOsys project. Using this curated register saved the whole team time. Information specialists, methodologists, and clinicians - we all benefited from less information noise. The register contains all important primary sources. The ability to filter by study design allowed us to quickly select the relevant studies for each review question. Another helpful feature is the study ty...
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