Changing health-care climates mean evaluators need to provide findings within shorter time frames, but challenges remain in the creation of rapid research designs capable of delivering quality data to inform decision-making processes. We conducted a review of articles to grapple with these challenges and explore the ways in which rapid evaluations have been used in health care. We found different labels being used to define rapid evaluations and identified a trend in the design of evaluations, where evaluators are moving away from short studies to longer evaluations with multiple feedback loops or cyclical stages. Evaluators are using strategies to speed up evaluations: conducting data collection and analysis in parallel, eliminating the use of transcripts, and utilizing larger evaluation teams to share the workload. Questions persist in relation to the suitability of rapid evaluation designs, the trustworthiness of the data, and the degree to which evaluation findings are used to make changes in practice.

不断变化的医疗保健环境意味着评估人员需要在较短的时间内提供调查结果，但是在创建能够提供高质量数据以为决策过程提供信息的快速研究设计方面仍然存在挑战。我们对文章进行了回顾，以应对这些挑战，并探索在医疗保健中使用快速评估的方式。我们发现使用不同的标签来定义快速评估，并确定了评估设计的趋势，评估人员正在从短期研究转向具有多个反馈回路或循环阶段的较长评估。评估人员正在使用策略来加快评估速度：并行进行数据收集和分析，消除笔录的使用以及利用更大的评估团队来分担工作量。