Are you just starting your systematic review? This paper takes a comprehensive approach to producing a high-quality systematic review/meta-analysis.
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📚🔎 Want to conduct a rigorous and comprehensive review of research? Check out this guide on systematic reviews! Learn how to locate, integrate, and critique evidence to draw broad conclusions:
Scoping or systematic? Choosing the right review approach is crucial for effective evidence synthesis. Scoping reviews are great for identifying gaps and clarifying concepts, while systematic reviews are ideal for answering specific research questions.
Meta-analyses can provide powerful insights by combining data from multiple studies. Check out this practical guide on conducting a meta-analysis in eight steps.
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Thinking about using forest plots in a systematic review and not sure how to go about it? This article explains how to read and interpret a forest plot from a systematic review:
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🙌 You can now download a Word Document (.docx) of your review's PRISMA flowchart. Modify, add to, and delete from this doc as needed. Just click on PRISMA on your review summary page, then click Download DOCX. Let us know what you think!
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Just because a systematic review doesn't use meta-analysis doesn't mean it should lack transparency. The SWiM - Synthesis Without Meta-analysis - provides a 9-item guideline for transparent reporting of synthesis findings. Check it out here:
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Conducting a high-quality systematic review and meta-analysis requires effective abstract screening. Check out these best practice guidelines to help your review team streamline the process and make informed decisions.
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📚🔍 Systematic reviews are vital for evidence-based healthcare. Selecting the right review type based on your research question is crucial. Read this paper for a typology of review methodologies, guiding novice and experienced reviewers:
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New interim guidance by Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group to support rapid evidence syntheses! Check out the 26 recommendations for conducting Rapid Reviews, informed by scoping review, primary studies, and expert discussions:
Effective immediately, Covidence is offering free access to researchers who are pursuing work on COVID-19. Please DM us or contact support
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📚 Meta-analysis vs. Literature Reviews: What's the Difference? Meta-analysis combines findings from multiple studies for a comprehensive view, while reviews summarize existing research. Learn the process from defining questions to reporting here//bit.ly/3NX1OsW
Meta-analysis allows the researcher to compare the treatment effect in different subgroups, even if these subgroups appear in separate studies. This paper looks at some of the statistical issues in meta-analysis.
"🔍 Systematic Review Screening Methods 📚 What's better: single or double screening? Check out this article and find out more:
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We’re excited to announce our new eBook: 'A Practical Guide: Data Extraction for Intervention Systematic Reviews'
Download your FREE guide now and make it an essential part of your research toolkit!
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We're all familiar with the terms 'Systematic Review' and 'Literature Review', but what's the difference?
We take a look at the differences between the two in our blog.
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🎉Exciting news! Our latest update allows you to structure eligibility criteria by PICOS! Now, users can easily organize and read criteria in bullet-point format, making the screening easy. Check it out under Review Settings >> Eligibility Criteria.
🙌 We’ve integrated with the leading RCT classifier algorithm to provide you with a prediction on whether studies in your review potentially report on an RCT. You can enable this functionality via the settings page.
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Starting your Systematic Review in the New Year or know someone who is?
Take a look at our helpful step-by-step blog on the big task ahead.
Don't forget to share!
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, and you shall receive! You can now export inter-rater reliability data from Covidence and calculate Cohen's kappa. Find it on the Export page of your review, try it out and tell us what you think!
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This discussion paper delves into scoping reviews, offering guidance based on best-practice guidelines. Explore key components, from developing questions to publication preparation.
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When creating a new review in Covidence, you can enable functionality that will tag automatically studies reporting on randomized controlled trials using the Cochrane RCT Classifier. More info//bit.ly/3Wl0FMz
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📢 ICYMI: Covidence ran a webinar 'Automation in systematic reviewing and the role of the research librarian'.
🙏 Thanks to our panelists
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@rmnparker
@carrieprice78
@2weekSR
🎦 Watch a recording:
🧵 Short on time? Here's what we covered:
Applications are now open for the Covidence Scholarship. If you are conducting a
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and are a PhD or Masters student, find out more here
We've introduced a game-changing feature to our screening studies process. Covidence now leverages machine learning to improve relevancy predictions to show the most relevant studies first. Watch our video to learn more//bit.ly/43xQrMQ
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If you are embarking on a
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, a librarian can be the person on your research team who can really set you up for success. Read more about it on our blog
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Feature update: Gain easy access to full text of a study with a simple click of a button. If your imported studies contained DOIs, these are now automatically turned into links in Covidence.
Try for yourself:
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Take a look at this study: 'Seeing the Forest by Looking at the Trees' 🌳🔍 It explains how to interpret meta-analysis forest plots effectively, providing insights using 6 key columns//bit.ly/47kvGah
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📣 Excited to introduce our amazing Covidence
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Their diverse experiences and passion for research make them invaluable members of our community.
Get to know them better in our latest blog post 👉
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Conducting a systematic review can seem overwhelming, but it's a worthwhile challenge for finding high-quality evidence. With a structured approach, you can break it down into manageable stages. Check out our blog for a step by step guide//bit.ly/3Ls9AbT
Save time uploading individual PDFs during full text screening, by using drag and drop. You can now drag and drop directly onto the full text screening list. More info//bit.ly/3Xknbqi
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So great to be back at the Cochrane Colloquium! Grab a coffee and head to our 10-minute demos at the Cochrane community stand during the breaks. We’ll be talking data extraction, PRISMA,
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, and more. See you there 😀
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Thank you to our amazing ambassador,
@Nainmirayuh
, for conducting a fantastic training session at
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Conducting systematic reviews & meta-analyses of prognostic factor studies is crucial in medical research. Learn the step-by-step guide to summarize evidence on prognostic factors, aiding treatment decisions, risk prediction, and enhancing trial design:
Save time and ensure accuracy in your systematic review with de-duplication in Covidence! Easily identify and remove duplicate references for transparent reporting.
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This article provides a comprehensive guide to conducting and reporting high-quality meta-analyses. It covers everything from the literature search to the presentation and interpretation of results.
Read the study:
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Are you managing a large volume of studies in Covidence? Find out how to filter them by tag in this 30-second video:
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researchers and
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– Don’t miss our educational webinar next Tuesday, July 7th with our top 5 tips for effective data extraction! We’re offering two live sessions. Register now:
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Covidence now supports capturing effect estimates (arm vs reference arm) using our Data Extraction 1.0 tool. This means you will have more flexibility in how you can extract data from a study.
This study provides practical guidelines to help review teams and managers conduct high-quality and comprehensive systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Read the full study here//bit.ly/3FWA1o3
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We are excited to announce the selection panel for the 2022 scholarship program and look forward to announcing the recipients on 31 May 2022.
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Planning the search of your review project? Join us on December 7 when Nia Wyn Roberts, Outreach Librarian at the Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford, will walk us through the process and answer your questions. Register here:
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Learn practical tips for conducting high-quality scoping reviews from search strategy to result presentation. Read now for global standards, transparency, and readability.
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🔍⏱️ Are you curious about Rapid Reviews in healthcare? Learn about Rapid Reviews - a swift approach to gathering insights in under 6 months with fewer resources compared to systematic reviews especially in limited time frames:
Exciting News! Join us next week for our free webinar on 28th June at 10am BST! Learn about AI in Systematic Reviews, explore new features, and gain insights from our experts. Plus, you can submit your questions for an interactive session. Register now at//bit.ly/3qfC8yn
😀 Covidence now saves and displays imported filenames. Use this to e.g. keep track of the date of the search and/or the name of the database. Either click on View details under Import references from your Review Summary page, or on Import history from the Import tool
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Undertaking research and systematic review can be quite daunting. Luckily there are many great resources available to help you get started. Find out more in our blog post.
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Let's talk data extraction! In this webinar you'll find out how to set up a template, organize the process, define your outcomes and reach consensus. We'll be joined by
@EllaFlemyng
Editorial Product Lead at
@cochranecollab
Register to join us live:
Please be aware that Covidence is offering free access to researchers who are pursuing work on COVID-19. Please DM us or contact support
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📢 Join our FREE Covidence 101 Webinar on August 22 at 9:00 am CDT! Discover the systematic review workflow and explore our top features including the Extraction 2.0 and PRISMA. Reserve your spot now! Can't make it live? Register anyway for the recording!
We're putting the extra into extraction 😏 with extra flexibility, extra time saved, and extra study, review and QA types now supported. Keen to learn more? Register for next week's webinar for a more detailed look at what's new
Want to learn how to develop a search strategy from an expert? Register for our free webinar run by Marian Showell, an Information Specialist working at the University of Auckland for Cochrane New Zealand:
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Thanks to lots of feedback from our users, we’re thrilled to have launched Extraction 2.0, a more flexible and intuitive way to do data extraction within Covidence 🎉 Sign in and take it for a spin, or visit the knowledge base to learn more
We're thrilled to introduce a new feature that allows you to automatically remove non-RCT studies saving you time by reducing the volume of references to manually screen by up to 45%!
Read our blog to find out more:
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Welcome to Covidence! 🎉
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😀 Covidence now saves and displays imported filenames. Use this to e.g. keep track of the date of the search and/or the name of the database. Either click on View details under Import references from your Review Summary page, or on Import history from the Import tool
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To all our amazing users, our team will be taking a (much needed) break from 19 Dec - 3 Jan. This won't impact your access to Covidence, but support responses will likely be delayed, and urgent requests regarding account access will take priority.
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In Covidence you can enter specific keywords for inclusion or exclusion of studies. We hope that being able to highlight these makes screening a little easier! Find out more here:
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Our student ambassador,
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, conducted an invaluable Covidence training session at the Haramaya University, Ethiopia. We were amazed by the great response from the participants. Thanks, Dumessa! Find out more about our student ambassador program:
A lot has changed since the first systematic reviews were published in the late 70s. New and innovative ways of reviewing the evidence continue to emerge. Read more about it on our blog
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