Covidence is an easy-to-use web-based tool that assists in streamlining the production of systematic reviews.
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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: Covidence 101: General Overview
Date/Time: Tuesday, 29 October 2024; Live 1-2pm (ADST) - 1 hr
The Covidence 101 patron webinar includes a live demo providing an overview of the systematic review workflow and showcases some of our most popular features:
You’ll also get tips and tricks to jumpstart your progress, as well as the opportunity to get your specific questions answered. Sessions fill up fast, so reserve your spot today! If you can't attend the live session, register anyway and you will receive a recording 24 hrs from the session.
Title: Essentials of Writing a Protocol for a Systematic Review
Date/Time: Wednesday, 16 October 2024; Live 12-1AM (ADST) - 1 hr
This session provides a Guide Through the Essentials of Writing a Protocol for a Systematic Review. We will explain
Bonus: Learn valuable tips and tricks on best practices and how to avoid common pitfalls when writing a protocol from our experts. If you can't attend the live session, register anyway and you will receive a recording within 24 hours 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)
Looking for more information on systematic reviews? Then checkout the Research Support Toolkit (RSTK)
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