Paper 3: Selecting rapid review methods for complex questions related to health policy and system issues

Approaches for rapid reviews that focus on streamlining systematic review methods are not always suitable for exploring complex policy questions, as developing and testing theories to explain these complexities requires configuring diverse qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies. Our objective was therefore to provide a guide to selecting approaches for rapidly (i.e., within days to months) addressing complex questions related to health policy and system issues. We provide a two-stage, transdisciplinary collaborative process to select a rapid review approach to address complex policy questions, which consists of scoping the breadth and depth of the literature and then selecting an optimal approach to synthesis.

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Wilson, M.G., S. Oliver, G. J. Melendez-Torres, J. N. Lavis, K. Waddell, K. Dickson (2021) Paper 3: Selecting rapid review methods for complex questions related to health policy and system issues. Syst Rev 10, 286 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01834-y