What is Covidence

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Covidence is a web-based software platform used to streamline the process of conducting systematic reviews and other types of literature reviews. It can be used for:

  • Invitations: Setting up, managing, and updating invitations to the account and individual reviews 
  • Screening: Screening abstracts and full text for relevancy 
  • Data extraction: Customizing templates to extract data 
  • Quality assessment: Assessing the risk of bias 
  • Collaboration: Working with a team of reviewers to screen results 
  • Tracking: Tracking review progress and key information 

Covidence is suitable for reviewers in a variety of sectors, including health, education, and social science. It can be used by anyone in an academic discipline that adopts an evidenced-based practice. 

Some steps for using Covidence include:

  • Uploading search results as an RIS file
  • De-duplicating records
  • Screening abstracts for relevancy
  • Screening full text
  • Resolving disagreements
  • Completing data extraction
  • Conducting risk of bias assessment
  • Exporting data into RevMan or Excel 
  • Last Updated Oct 09, 2024
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  • Answered By Amy Nadell

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