Enhancing the quality and efficiency of regulatory science literature reviews through innovation and collaboration with library and information science experts

“…For the EBP methods to remain gold standard and useful, researchers and Information Specialists have added layers of procedural sophistication at all steps of the EBP chain. Information Specialists bring unique skills to the field of evidence synthesis and there is growing recognition of the value of their contribution in identifying and managing large and diverse evidence sources [ 14 , 15 ]. Search, our example here, has moved from being modeled on a basic PICO framework run primarily in databases to one of increasingly sophisticated choices between evidence sources and search terms to describe and inform the concepts contained within search questions.…”