{"id":60,"date":"2019-09-27T12:34:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T11:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/doid-staff\/?p=60"},"modified":"2019-09-27T12:34:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T11:34:48","slug":"covidence-a-new-tool-for-managing-and-simplifying-systematic-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/doid-staff\/2019\/09\/27\/covidence-a-new-tool-for-managing-and-simplifying-systematic-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Covidence: a new tool for managing and simplifying Systematic Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/doii-staff\/files\/2019\/09\/abt_2305941568095299589MjU2OTM0Nw.jpg\" alt=\"Imperial team meeting\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are planning or doing a Systematic Review, or supporting or supervising students or researchers in their reviews, you\u2019ll want to use Covidence. Covidence is a web-based tool that improves healthcare evidence synthesis by improving the efficiency and experience of creating and maintaining Systematic Reviews, including Cochrane intervention reviews.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It provides keyword highlighting and records the screening decision of multiple reviewers. Uploading PDFs is quick and easy and exclusion notes can be captured to resolve disagreements. Covidence includes customisable data extraction forms and automatically populates the Risk of Bias tables and Prisma Flow Chart. The interface is simple and intuitive and suitable for students and experienced reviewers alike.<\/p>\n<p>Covidence can save you time on repetitive review tasks, enabling faster review production and more time for analysis and interpretation by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>importing citations and PDFs direct from your searches and identifying duplicate records<\/li>\n<li>allowing for single or multiple reviewers<\/li>\n<li>highlighting keywords and offering you a simple\u00a0yes\/no\/maybe choice when screening titles and abstracts<\/li>\n<li>recording your (fully customisable) exclusion criteria and notes during full-text screening<\/li>\n<li>easily resolving screening, risk of bias and data extractions conflicts<\/li>\n<li>automatically populating your Risk of Bias table by highlighting and commenting on text within PDFs<\/li>\n<li>creating a customisable data extraction form<\/li>\n<li>exporting data into RevMan or Excel for meta-analysis<\/li>\n<li>your reference management software (such as EndNote and RefWorks)<\/li>\n<li>keeping a record of all your actions and automatically populating your Prisma flowchart for you throughout the process<\/li>\n<li>allowing use on the move on your phone or tablet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To request access to Imperial College\u2019s Covidence account, you must have an active Imperial College e-mail address.<\/p>\n<p>Join at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.covidence.org\/organizations\/7g067\/signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.covidence.org\/organizations\/7g067\/signup<\/a> by entering your college email address and clicking \u201cRequest Invitation&#8221;, then accept the email invite.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll get unlimited records for each review as well as an unlimited number of reviewers (you can add reviewers from outside college e.g. collaborate with NHS colleagues).<\/p>\n<p>Our Medical Librarians support students and staff and conducting literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses and other types of research reviews.<\/p>\n<p>For more guidance in planning, conducting, reporting and publishing research reviews at Imperial College, see our\u00a0 Systematic Review Guide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/media\/imperial-college\/administration-and-support-services\/library\/public\/systematic-review-flowchart-september-2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/media\/imperial-college\/administration-and-support-services\/library\/public\/systematic-review-flowchart-september-2018.pdf<\/a>, or contact your Librarian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/admin-services\/library\/subject-support\/medicine-and-biomedical-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/admin-services\/library\/subject-support\/medicine-and-biomedical-science\/<\/a>\u00a0to get 1:1 advice.<\/p>\n<p>More information and useful links for literature searching and evidence synthesis can be found on our Medicine Subject Support page\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/admin-services\/library\/subject-support\/medicine-and-biomedical-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/admin-services\/library\/subject-support\/medicine-and-biomedical-science\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Covidence offers short video tutorials in their Knowledge Base to help you get started with your review. See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.covidence.org\/help\/getting-started-with-covidence-new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/support.covidence.org\/help\/getting-started-with-covidence-new<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.covidence.org\/help\/getting-started-with-covidence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/support.covidence.org\/help\/getting-started-with-covidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are planning or doing a Systematic Review, or supporting or supervising students or researchers in their reviews, you\u2019ll want to use Covidence. 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