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    COVID-19 L·OVE REPOSITORY IS HIGHLY COMPREHENSIVE AND CAN BE USED AS A SINGLE SOURCE FOR COVID-19 STUDIES
    (2021) Verdugo Paiva, Francisca; Vergara, C.; Ávila, Camila; Castro, J.; Cid, J.; Contreras, V.; Jara, I.; Jiménez, Valentina; Ha Lee, Min; Muñoz, Magdalena; Rojas Gómez, Ana María; Roson Rodríguez, P.; Serrano Arevalo, K.; Silva Ruz, Ivan; Vásquez Laval, J.; Zambrano Achig, Paula; Zavadzki, Giovanna; Rada G., Gabriel
    Objective: COVID-19 Living OVerview of Evidence (COVID-19 L·OVE) is a public repository and classification platform for COVID-19 articles. The repository contains over 430,000 articles as of 20 September 2021 and intends to provide a one-stop shop for COVID-19 evidence. Considering that systematic reviews conduct high-quality searches, this study assesses the comprehensiveness and currency of the repository against the total number of studies in a representative sample of COVID-19 systematic reviews. Methods: Our sample was generated from all the studies included in the systematic reviews of COVID-19 published during April 2021. We estimated the comprehensiveness of COVID-19 L·OVE repository by determining how many of the individual studies in the sample were included in the COVID-19 L·OVE repository. We estimated the currency as the percentage of studies that were available in the COVID-19 L·OVE repository at the time the systematic reviews conducted their own search. Results: We identified 83 eligible systematic reviews that included 2132 studies. COVID-19 L·OVE had an overall comprehensiveness of 99.67% (2125/2132). The overall currency of the repository, that is, the proportion of articles that would have been obtained if the search of the reviews was conducted in COVID-19 L·OVE instead of searching the original sources, was 96.48% (2057/2132). Both the comprehensiveness and the currency were 100% for randomised trials (82/82). Conclusion: The COVID-19 L·OVE repository is highly comprehensive and current. Using this repository instead of traditional manual searches in multiple databases can save a great amount of work to people conducting systematic reviews and would improve the comprehensiveness and timeliness of evidence syntheses. This tool is particularly important for supporting living evidence synthesis processes.