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Covidence is designed to easily import citations ready for screening by multiple reviewers. It provides keyword highlighting and records the voting of screeners. Uploading full copy 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. Covidence can be used from the beginning of your Systematic Review - title/abstract screening right through to the beginning of your meta-analysis
This resource is available to all ANZCA Fellows and Trainees.
If you would like Librarian assistance with your Systematic Review/Using Covidence please tick YES in this section within the ANZCA Author Profile Invite Form. Our Research Librarian can assist with searching across databases, advice on conducting and reporting systematic reviews.
LibKey Nomad integration available for full-text article access
Title: Setting up a review in Covidence
Date/Time: Tuesday, 4 March 2025; Live 1-2PM (ADST) - 1 hr
Are you ready to set up your review in Covidence? Let's walk you through this simple process:
Bonus: Learn valuable tips and tricks to accelerate your review workflow, as well as the opportunity to get your specific questions answered by our experts. We highly recommend attendees to watch our general Covidence 101 webinar before joining this session to ensure familiarity with the platform. If you can't attend the live session, register anyway and you will receive a recording 24 hrs after the session.
Title: Covidence Extraction 1 tool
Date/Time: Thursday, 3 April 2025; Live 1-2AM (ADST) - 1 hr
This session is a deep dive into Covidence's newly revamped Extraction 1 tool. It is aimed at researchers who are familiar with the platform and are working on intervention reviews, i.e. reviews that study the effect of drugs, therapies, vaccines, medical devices, procedures, or public health policies.
We will walk you through the steps of:
Bonus: You will have the opportunity to explore the latest updates in Extraction 1 and learn how decisions taken on the set up of the template affect the format of the export. This is in addition to valuable tips and tricks to accelerate your review workflow, as well as the opportunity to get your specific questions answered by our experts. We highly recommend watching Covidence 101 before joining this session to ensure familiarity with the platform. If you can't attend the live session, register anyway and you will receive a recording 24 hrs after the session.
Duration: 3 mins 24 secs
In order to take advantage of the ANZCA Covidence subscription, it is necessary for us to send you an invite so that we can link your author profile to the ANZCA account.
How to create a review (1 min 40 secs)
To begin a new review:
You can add authors/reviewers when you first create your review, or you can add them later by going to the Settings> Reviewers menu.
To add to a reviewer directly after creating a review:
To add to a pre-existing review:
LibKey Nomad can be used to access ANZCA full-text via Covidence using Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi and Safari. It will also allow users to request articles not held full text and see article retraction warnings.
Nailed It! Top 5 Tips for Effective SR Data Extraction (54 mins 47 secs)
Exporting all of your review data (5 mins 57 secs)
Step 6: PRISMA (56 mins 17 secs)
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A Practical Guide: Protocol Development for Systematic Reviews by
Developing a strong protocol is a critical step in any systematic review, and we're here to make this process smoother and more accessible for you. Offering comprehensive insights from experts, this guide is an invaluable resource, especially for students, to help you create well-structured, high-quality protocols—ensuring that your systematic reviews are set up for success from the very start.
A Practical Guide: Data Extraction for Intervention Systematic Reviews by
Whether you’re a seasoned researcher or just starting out, this guide can help streamline your data extraction processes, avoid unnecessary work, and deliver high-quality outcomes, regardless of which data extraction tool you are using.
https://www.covidence.org/resource/data-extraction-for-intervention-systematic-reviews/
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