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Systematic Review Process: Using Covidence for Your Systematic Review

This guide will assist teammates and researchers at Advocate Health - Midwest who are seeking information on and instructions for conducting systematic reviews.

About Covidence

When you select and retrieve the studies for your review, you will need to store them. Covidence is an online system that streamlines the systematic review process. It was designed by researchers familiar with the systematic review process in order to make conducting reviews more efficient.

Brief overview

  • Citations are imported into Covidence from EndNote, Zotero or Mendeley (your citation manager)
  • Members of the review team are invited to join the project and they create inclusion/exclusion criteria and tags for the study
  • Covidence guides team members through: initial screening of titles/abstracts, full text review, quality assessment, data extraction, exporting review data and generates and up-to-date PRISMA flow diagram to document each step

Sign up for a free trial account in Covidence

  • Your account will be limited to one review with two reviewers
  • You will be allowed to upload only 500 citations for screening