Mechanisms to enhance the timeliness of reviews
| Mechanism | Description |
| Narrowing the scope | Limiting the number of populations, interventions and outcomes considered |
| Parallelisation of tasks | Increasing the intensity of work on review processes where multiple reviewers simultaneously complete review steps, for example, eligibility screening, data abstraction and risk-of-bias assessment |
| Using review shortcuts | One or more systematic review steps may be reduced or omitted |
| Automating review steps | Developing, adapting and using new technologies to fast-track the standard systematic review steps, for example, screening or data abstraction |