Banner Health FAQs

Welcome! With support from Banner University Medical Center Phoenix Graduate Medical Education, Banner Health Library is thrilled to provide access to Covidence through an institutional subscription.

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.

Getting Started

• Option 1: Ready to use Covidence? Join the Banner Health Covidence account
• Option 2: If you’d like an option with guardrails, you may submit a Covidence project request form and a librarian will assist you. Before Creating Your 1 st Review Once signed into Covidence, please click on “Try the ‘Demo Review’, located at the bottom of the screen. The Demo Review feature offers a hands-on learning opportunity so you can dip your feet in the water before diving in.

Before Creating Your 1st Review

Once signed into Covidence, please click on “Try the ‘Demo Review’, located at the bottom of the screen. The Demo Review feature offers a hands-on learning opportunity so you can dip your feet in the water before diving in.

Support

Banner Health Librarians can assist with planning, conducting, and reporting systematic reviews and other types of research reviews. Librarians undergo training in the development and documentation of SR search strategies. They also develop complex and comprehensive search strategies while ensuring the replicability of search outcomes. Team up with a Banner Librarian now.

Training

Covidence offers monthly training webinars and 24-hour 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. The revamped Covidence Academy is a great resource containing useful ‘How to’ guides, step-by-step videos on Covidence features, and helpful links to additional resources

Once You’ve Created Your Project,  Invite Reviewers an Or Accept Invitation 

Collaborate Across Institutions
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” 

1. From the review Settings, navigate to “Add/remove reviewers”
2. Click on “Invite another reviewer” and enter your reviewer’s first name and email addresses to invite them

To Accept An Invitation
An email invitation will be sent to join your review: click "Accept Invitation."

1. Sign in to your existing Covidence account or sign up for a new account.
2. Once you have successfully accepted the invitation to your review, it will appear in on your account homepage.
3. The benefits of requesting a review through Banner: The cost is covered by the institutional subscription, invite an unlimited number of collaborators, screen an unlimited number of articles, and be part of the Banner Health systematic review repository.

Tutorials
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.

Happy Reviewing!