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- •Challenges for evidence synthesis include time demands, duplication and waste.
- •Comparative effectiveness reviews have particularly intense time and resource demands.
- •A collaborative review can produce high-quality comparative evidence more efficiently.
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Funding: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research provided funding for this project (Project Grant Competition, PJT-173478). MLF holds a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Investigator Fellowship.
Conflict of interest: Jill A Hayden and Collaborative Review Working Group members report no other known competing interests.
Data sharing: Not relevant.