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. 2022 Mar 24;147:52–59. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.03.006

Table 6.

Currency and accrual rate of test articles tracked to appearance in each collection

Outcome Epistemonikos WHO LitCovid SOLES Cochrane PubMed
N Currenta 32/48
67%
36/50
72%
36/50
72%
30/50
60%
28/41
68%
38/50
76%
Median lagb (1st, 3rd quartile) 4 [1, 7] 5 [2, 6.5] 4 [2, 7] 8 [6.2, 9.8] 6 [3, 8] 2 [0, 4]
Number present after
 1 day 5 5 5 1 0 7
 3 daysc 16 15 16 2 9 27
 5 days 22 25 23 4 13 30
 7 days 24 33 28 12 18 35
 10 days 28 36 35 23 24 37
 14 days 32 39 36 30 28 38
a

Denominator corrected. Epistemonikos identified two of the target articles as “excluded.” Nine of the target articles were assessed as out of scope for the Cochrane collection by one investigator (RB) and verified by a second investigator (MS).

b

Calculated using articles that appeared within the 2-week monitoring period.

c

Proportion of in-scope tracked articles identifiable in a collection within 3 days of appearance at the journal site was our primary outcome for the currency portion.