TY - JOUR T1 - Quality appraisal of evidence generated during a crisis: in defence of ‘timeliness’ and ‘clarity’ as criteria JF - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine JO - BMJ EBM SP - 189 LP - 189 DO - 10.1136/bmjebm-2021-111760 VL - 27 IS - 3 AU - G James Rubin AU - Simon Wessely AU - Neil Greenberg AU - Samantha K Brooks Y1 - 2022/06/01 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/27/3/189.abstract N2 - In 2020, SARS-CoV-2 spread across the globe with incredible speed. Policymakers had to make impossible decisions and act quickly. With gold-standard systematic reviews taking 6 months–2 years to complete,1 it is no surprise that many authors used rapid review methods instead in order to provide guidance in a matter of days or weeks. In their review, Abbott et al graded the quality of 280 reviews published in the first 5 months of the pandemic and found 46 that were rapid reviews.2 This included our paper3: ‘The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review … ER -