Global spotlights

Global spotlights can be accessed below and are shared through many of our dissemination partners. While our monthly evidence updates have now ended, individuals interested in continuing to automatically receive updates on the best available evidence to inform pandemic-response efforts are encouraged to register for a free account on the COVID-END inventory of evidence synthesis. Once your account is created, be sure to sign in to access exclusive features, which will enable you to:

• explore the full list of search filters available, which you can then apply to narrow your search to find evidence of particular interest to you
• click the ‘save and subscribe’ button at the top of your results page to save your search strategy and subscribe to receive a monthly email containing links to any documents that have been newly added and meet your search parameters.

Global spotlights are published twice a month and include:

• updates to ‘best’ living evidence syntheses
• new ‘best’ evidence syntheses, which could be full or rapid reviews and living (i.e., regularly updated) or not.

For each entry in a spotlight (or each row in a spotlight table) we provide:

• whether it addresses public-health measures, clinical management, health-system arrangements, or economic and social responses (i.e., what part of the COVID-END taxonomy it addresses)
• hyperlinked ‘declarative title’ that provides decision-relevant details like the interventions or exposures examined and the certainty of available evidence
• type of synthesis (drawn from the above list)
• date of last search for evidence
• quality of the evidence synthesis
• whether an evidence profile (e.g., GRADE) is available that speaks to the certainty of the evidence contained in the evidence synthesis.

The entries include the best syntheses in the world on COVID-19-related questions and draw on the COVID-END inventory of best evidence syntheses.

All new requests from decision-makers are checked against both our inventory of best evidence syntheses (from which these global spotlights are drawn) and our inventory of Canadian evidence syntheses (from which our Canadian spotlights are drawn) to ensure we share and build on already completed work.