Screening in Covidence
Covidence has created a number of videos and tip sheets to demonstrate how to perform title/abstract screening, full text review, resolving conflicts and much more.
Visit Covidence Videos and user guides for screening
When you are ready to do your full text screening you will need to add the full text to your records.
- How to add and/or remove a PDF in Covidence
- How to bulk import PDFs – step-by-step guide
How references move through a review - gives an overview of where a particular reference is depending on the votes it has received
Quality Assessment
Covidence only supports a Risk of Bias assessment at the moment. You have the option to start with the standard Cochrane Risk of Bias domains or to define a custom set of domains for your needs.
The Cochrane Risk of Bias domains include:
- sequence generation
- allocation concealment
- blinding of participants and personnel
- blinding of outcome assessment
- incomplete outcome data
- selective outcome reporting and ‘other issues’
View Cochrane videos on Risk of Bias tool: RoB 2.0 tool Part 1, RoB 2.0 tool Part 2, RoB 2.0 tool Part 3, RoB 2.0 tool Part 4
The domains that you define for the first study assessed in a review will be used as the template for all the other studies in this review. So, each subsequent assessment will have the same list of domains as the first assessment. You can still customize each study independently.
View Covidence videos and guide sheets for more information on Quality Assessment
Data Extraction
Once you have completed the screening process, you are ready to move on to Data Extraction
The options are to:
- Continue using Covidence, or
- Export your included / excluded resources to undertake Data Extraction in another program, such as Excel.
View the Covidence Videos and user guides for Data Extraction 2 or Data Extraction 1 for more information including how to set up extraction tables, adding custom study design or custom text fields, and exporting the extracted data
- A practical guide to Data Extraction for Intervention Systematic ReviewsCreated by Covidence, this guide provides you with insights from the global systematic review community, including definitions, practical advice, links to the Cochrane Handbook, downloadable templates, and real-world examples.
Exporting Studies
Covidence facilitates the exporting of study lists to citation management software, Excel, or RevMan. In addition, Covidence automatically populates your PRISMA flow diagram. You can export this data as a table, or take a screenshot!
View the Covidence Export videos and user guides for more details