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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: Building your Data Extraction Template
Date/Time: Thursday, 22 May 2025; Live 1-2AM (AEST) - 1 hr
During this session we will use a protocol to provide a step-by-step approach to create and edit a Template using Data extraction 1 newest features. You will get to see the finished product. This webinar is aimed at new and experienced users interested in acquiring skills to use our Data Extraction 1 template.
We will showcase our latest features in:
Bonus: You get to see how our Data extraction template can accommodate both quantitative and qualitative designs.
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)
How to export references (1 min 55 secs)
Step 6: PRISMA (56 mins 17 secs)
Looking for more information on systematic reviews? Then checkout the Research Support Toolkit (RSTK)
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