Systematic Reviews

Covidence is an online tool that helps streamline the process of systematic, narrative and scoping literature reviews, and guideline projects. With an intuitive user experience, researchers can handle independent title/abstract screening, full text screening, data extraction and quality assessment using a single platform. Covidence makes collaboration easy and saves considerable amount of time for the whole team. To request access to the institutional account in Covidence, please use your current @bswhealth.org.
- Enter your information (using your @bswhealth.org) and click “Request Invitation” link. Accept the invitation via your email
- If you are invited to join a specific review/project, log in to your existing Covidence account or sign up for a new account

Rayyan is a free web-tool designed to help researchers working on systematic reviews and other knowledge synthesis projects. It can help you dramatically speed up the process of screening and selecting studies.

The System for the Unified Management, Assessment and Review of Information (SUMARI) is designed to assist researchers and practitioners to conduct the following review types - reviews of effectiveness, qualitative research, economic evaluations, prevalence/incidence, aetiology/risk, mixed methods, umbrella/overviews, text/opinion, diagnostic test accuracy and scoping reviews. SUMARI facilitates protocol development, team management, study selection, critical appraisal, data extraction, data synthesis and writing your final report.
Go to Databases - Joanna Briggs Inst. EBP (Ovid interface)
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EBP Tools – JBI Tools – SUMARI
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Catchii is a free software designed to support all stages of a systematic review, from detecting duplicates to creating PRISMA flowcharts.

HubMeta is a free web-based platform for conducting systematic reviews or correlational meta-analysis.

PRISMA 2020 is complemented by various PRISMA extensions, which provide guidance for the reporting of different types or aspects of systematic reviews and other types of evidence synthesis (e.g. scoping reviews).

A searchable database of reporting guidelines

AMSTAR can be used to assess the methodological quality of a systematic review and as a guide to performing a systematic review. Two agreements are required during quality assessment ensuring lower risk of bias. AMSTAR has guidelines explaining each outlined item.