Eligibility Criteria
Search results were uploaded into the Covidence software for systematic reviews (Veritas Health Innovation Ltd). Articles with duplicate titles were removed and a two-stage independent screening process was used to select studies for inclusion. Pilots were run for the initial stage of screening until review authors (N.W. and M.M.) reached a kappa agreement value of 0.8. Subesequently, reviewers independently screened titles and abstracts. Articles deemed eligible at this stage moved onto full-text screening. Discrepancies that arose during both stages of screening were resolved by joint-discussion among the authorship team until concensus was achieved. The inclusion criteria involved: (1) self-identified as a systematic review in the title or abstract; (2) systematic review must examine primary literature; (3) systematic review must investigate the safety, efficacy, and/or effectiveness of any method of induction of labour. The exclusion criteria involved: (1) non-intervention systematic reviews (e.g. diagnostic or screening tools); (2) non-english literature; (3) non-human based studies; (4) systematic reviews of systematic reviews; (5) conference abstracts and outdated reviews (when an updated version was avaialble and included); (6) reviews intended to examine the current state of literature, where participant outcomes were not the outcome of interest; and (7) conference abstracts and meta-analyses that did not incorporate a systematic review.