Search strategy formulation for systematic reviews: Issues, challenges and opportunities

Systematic literature reviews play a vital role in identifying the best available evidence for health and social care research, policy, practice. The resources required to produce systematic can be significant, key success of any review is search strategy used identify relevant literature. However, methods construct strategies complex, time consuming, resource intensive error prone. In this review, we examine state art resolving complex structured information needs, focusing primarily on healthcare context. We analyse challenges issues explore appropriate solutions workarounds. From analysis propose way forward facilitate trust aid explainability transparency, reproducibility replicability through set design principles tools support development reviews.