Banner Health FAQs

Banner Health with the help of BUMCP Graduate Medical Education is excited to offer access to Covidence through an institutional subscription. 

Support 

Librarians at Banner Health can assist with planning, conducting, and reporting systematic reviews and other types of research reviews. Our librarians are trained in SR search strategy development and documentation, to perform complex and thorough searches and ensure reproducibility of search results. Are you ready to enlist the support of a Banner librarian? Complete a Review Request Form 

Signup for a Free Account to get started. Try the ‘Demo Review’ to get familiar with how a Covidence works. This will allow you to have a hands-on experience and understand the process better. You will find it at the bottom of your dashboard once you have signed in. Give it a go and feel free to explore! 

Training

Covidence offers monthly training webinars, along with 24-hour methodological or technical support at support@covidence.org. The Knowledge Base can help you Get Started with Covidence or you can refer to the YouTube channel for online video tutorials. Covidence Academy is also a great resource containing useful ‘How to’ guides, step-by-step videos on Covidence features, and helpful links to additional resources.  Covidence 101 is a great starting point. Passcode: 1uWK*ggF

How to access the Banner Health Covidence institutional license 

1. Request your Covidence Review by completing this form 

2. An email invitation will be sent to join your review: click 'Accept Invitation’.

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4. Sign in to your existing Covidence account or sign up for a new account.  

5. Once you have successfully accepted the invitation to your review, it will appear in on your account homepage. 

6. The benefits of creating a review through Banner: Unlimited number of articles you can screen, invite an unlimited number of collaborators, it’s free, no limit on the number of reviews you can request. 

What is Covidence 

Covidence is a web-based tool that will help you through the process of screening your references, data extraction, and keeping track of your work. It is particularly useful for researchers conducting a systematic review, meta-analysis or clinical guideline. 

In Covidence you can: 

• Import references - Covidence works seamlessly with your favorite reference managers like EndNote, Zotero, Refworks, Mendeley or any tool that support RIS, CSV or PubMed XML formats. Covidence can automatically remove duplicates for you. 

• Screen title & abstract - Breeze through screening with keyword highlighting & a lightning quick interface. Covidence keeps full records of who voted and supports single or dual screeners. 

• Bulk PDF import - Transfer PDFs stored in your reference manager to Covidence in a few clicks.  

• Screen full text - Decide quickly on studies in full text. Capture reasons for exclusion and any notes so you can resolve any disagreements quickly, with a click of a button. 

• Create forms - Be in control and stay focused on your PICO question. Customizable extraction forms means you only spend time extracting what you need. 

• Customize risk of bias - Automatically populate your risk of bias tables by highlighting and commenting on text directly in your PDF. 

• Conduct data extraction - Extract data efficiently with a side-by-side view of your customized form and PDF. Then, when you are done, easily compare your form with other reviewers.   

• Export - Covidence exports to all the common formats so you can continue your review in your preferred software.  

• Collaborate - You can invite other reviewers (including external colleagues) to work with you on the project. 

Work with team members from any institution

Once a review is created, you can add co-reviewers. 

1. From the homepage (Your reviews), select the review you wish to add co-reviewers to and click on “Settings” 

2. From the review Settings, navigate to “Add/remove reviewers” 

3. Click on “Invite another reviewer” and enter your reviewer’s first name and email addresses to invite them 

Happy Reviewing!