Personal Statement
My NCBI Bibliography: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/melissa.rethlefsen.1/bibliography/public/
Areas of Specialty
improving the reproducibility of systematic review search strategies
Certifications
Distinguished Member, Academy of Health Information Professionals
Research and Scholarship
Rethlefsen ML, Kirtley S, Waffenschmidt S, Ayala AP, Moher D, Page MJ, Koffel JB, PRISMA-S Group. PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA statement for reporting literature searches in systematic reviews. Syst Rev 2021; 10:39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-020-01542-z.
Rethlefsen ML, Zhao S, Lackey MJ. Building capacity to encourage research reproducibility and #MakeResearchTrue. J Med Libr Assoc 2018; 106(1): 113-9. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2018.273.
Rethlefsen ML, Farrell AM, Osterhaus Trzasko LC, Brigham TJ. Librarian co-authors correlated with higher quality reported search strategies in general internal medicine systematic reviews. J Clin Epidemiol 2015; 68(6):617-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.11.025.
Koffel JB, Rethlefsen ML. Reproducibility of search strategies is poor in systematic reviews published in high-impact Pediatrics, Cardiology and Surgery journals: a cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE 2016; 11(9): e0163309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163309
Rethlefsen ML, Murad MH, Livingston EH. Engaging medical librarians to improve the quality of review articles. JAMA 2014; 312(10):999-1000.