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. 2020 Nov 11;131:11–21. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.11.005

Table 1.

COVID-19 sources scanned daily

Type Sources
All COVID-19 research Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 Research Articles Database
Comprises systematic searches of over 20 sources, including various bibliographic databases, trial registers, manuscript preprint servers (e.g., medRxiv) and handsearching of selected gray literature sources.
COVID-19 systematic reviews, rapid summaries and other syntheses Sources of completed systematic reviews:
  • COVID-19 Evidence Reviews maintained by the VA Evidence Synthesis Program

Organisations producing evidence summaries:
  • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)

  • Cochrane

  • ECRI (Emergency Care Research Institute)

  • McMaster University COVID-19 Rapid Evidence Reviews

  • NICE COVID-19 rapid guidelines and evidence summaries

  • Oxford Center for Evidence-Based Medicine

COVID-19 primary studies Living evidence map and living systematic review of COVID-19 studies (covid-nma.org)
Identifies randomized trials, nonrandomized studies and case series from daily screening of searches of PubMed, Chinarxiv, and MedRxiv. Provides study characteristics, risk of bias assessments and forest plots.
Other sources NSW Health COVID-19 Critical Intelligence Unit Daily Evidence Digest