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Hi Jon, Just noting on your statement/ question: 'what is the best methodology?', what I can tell you from my limited experience in this field is that there is no singular ‘best methodology’ or even range of methodologies for that matter, because the nature of ‘rapid reviews’ are not top down. Since the term ‘rapid review’ shares some of the concepts with ‘systematic review’, many (not pointing fingers at anyone specifically) assume that they are just traditional, high-quality reviews of the literature but just performed ‘rapidly’. If they had been called ‘hocus pocus studies’ there would be no expectation to meet the methodological rigor associated with ‘Cochrane style’ systematic reviews. In reality, each organization that conducts/ uses rapid reviews has generated its own guidance and steps in conducting these fast-tracked products and they if viewed from an objective lens can be seen as ranging from a literature search to a full high quality review. The only item I have found to unite all ‘rapid reviews’ is that they should be conducted in a minimal timeframe compared with traditional systematic reviews. Having said that, I’ve completed reviews in as little as 24-hours (those reviews were all published as traditional systematic reviews). So back to your initiative, are you looking to create something unique to the needs of your local decision-makers or more broadly trying to set guidance for the production of evidence synthesis by organizations? In all cases, I wish you the best of luck and look forward to seeing how this develops. Best wishes, Ahmed From: Evidence based health (EBH) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon Brassey Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 2:01 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Community Rapid Review System Hi All, I've been involved in clinical question answering for twenty years now; it's the reason I created the Trip Database (to help support my work). Me and my various teams have answered over 10,000 clinical questions and these are, to my mind, rapid reviews. I'm also acutely aware that Trip is widely used to support clinical question answering. It has seemed unfortunate that people answering their questions do not share the information with others. The rise of so-called 'rapid reviews' has been charted on another site I started https://rapid-reviews.info/ (see graph here https://rapid-reviews.info/2016/12/16/the-rise-of-rapid-reviews-growth-compared-with-systematic-reviews/). But one of the most frequent questions I ask is about 'what is the best methodology?' So, trying to pull these two threads into a single initiative I have started planning a community rapid review system. It will be created (later on this year) to support users producing rapid reviews and the intention is that it will be a supportive, nurturing and educational environment . I'm pulling together a group of interested people to help shape the thinking around the system, so if you're interested then let me know. Best wishes jon -- Jon Brassey Director, Trip Database<http://www.tripdatabase.com> Honorary Fellow at CEBM<http://www.cebm.net>, University of Oxford Creator, Rapid-Reviews.info<http://Rapid-Reviews.info>