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Table 2 Characteristics of included guidance documents (52 documents produced by 19 research groups)

From: What guidance is available for researchers conducting overviews of reviews of healthcare interventions? A scoping review and qualitative metasummary

 

Documents that contain explicit methodological guidance for conducting overviews (41 documents produced by 12 research groups)

Documents that describe an author team’s experience conducting one or more published overviews (11 documents produced by 9 research groups)

Research group

Number of documents (Additional file 3 references)

Years documents were produced

Document formats

Number of documents (Additional file 3 references)

Years documents were produced

Document formats

Cochrane Child Health Field (CHF)

11a

(A1–A11)

2010–2015

6 oral presentationsa, 2 internal documents, 2 posters, 1 journal article

2

(A42, A43)

2011–2013

1 journal article, 1 poster

Cochrane Comparing Multiple Interventions Methods Group (CMIMG)

18a

(A1, A6, A7, A12–A26)

2008–2015

10 oral presentationsa, 5 internal documents, 1 journal article, 1 book chapter, 1 website

–

–

–

Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group (CCRG)

–

–

–

1

(A44)

2009

1 journal article

Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care Review Group (EPOC)

1

(A27)

2011

1 oral presentation

2

(A45, A46)

2011–2015

1 oral presentation, 1 poster

Cochrane Musculoskeletal Review Group (CM)

–

–

–

1

(A47)

2010

1 poster

Cochrane Public Health Group (CPHG)

1

(A28)

2014

1 journal article

–

–

–

Cochrane Stroke Group (CS)

–

–

–

1

(A48)

2015

1 oral presentation

Duke University (DukeU)

1

(A29)

2012

1 journal article

–

–

–

Dutch Cochrane Centre (DCC)

–

–

–

1

(A49)

2009

1 poster

Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI)

2

(A30, A31)

2015

1 journal article, 1 oral presentation

–

–

–

Joanna Briggs Institute Umbrella Reviews Methodology Group (JBI)

4

(A32–A35)

2007–2015

2 internal documents, 1 journal article, 1 book chapter

–

–

–

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technology Assessment (LBI)

–

–

–

1

(A50)

2015

1 journal article

Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services (NOKC)

1

(A36)

2013

1 book chapter

–

–

–

Pontifical Xavierian University (PXU)

–

–

–

1

(A51)

2011

1 poster

Trinity College Dublin (TCD)

1

(A37)

2011

1 journal article

–

–

–

University of Birmingham (UBirm)

1

(A38)

2012

1 journal article

–

–

–

University of Dundee (UDun)

–

–

–

1

(A52)

2004

1 journal article

Western Journal of Nursing Research (WJNR)

1

(A39)

2014

1 editorial

–

–

–

Witten/Herdecke University (WHU)

2

(A40, A41)

2014

2 journal articles

–

–

–

  1. aThree documents are counted twice because they were produced by authors affiliated with both of these groups (Additional file 3, references A1, A6, and A7). For these three documents, guidance presented by DC, LAB, and RMF was extracted into the CMIMG category, and guidance presented by DT, LH, and MF was extracted into the CHF category