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
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