Through the Drug Effectiveness Review Project, researchers analyzed 69 decisions on whether to update 41 comparative drug effectiveness reviews. The Kaplan-Meier product limit method was used to estimate mean time to update, which was approximately 25 months. Predictors of the decision to update comparative drug effectiveness reviews were introduction of new drugs and the number of new relevant trials. Psychiatric topics, compared to nonpsychiatric topics, are more rapidly developing. Because of this, decisions to update reviews related to psychiatric topics occurred more frequently.
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