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Systematic Review Process: Additional Resources: Tools and Software

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

Software and Additional Tools to Use When Conducting a Systematic Review

  • Systematic Review Toolbox

    Select the Healthcare discipline and features you want a tool to support.

  • SRDR tool from AHRQ

    Free, web-based and has a training environment, tutorials, and example templates of systematic review data extraction forms. Requires you to set up a personal account.

  • Rayyan

     A low-cost, web-based tool for collecting and screening citations. It has options to screen with multiple people, masking each other.

  • GradePro

    Free, web application to create, manage and share summaries of research evidence (called Evidence Profiles and Summary of Findings Tables) for reviews or guidelines, uses the GRADE criteria to evaluate each paper under review.

  • PRISMA 2020 flow diagram generator

    The PRISMA Statement website has a page listing example flow diagram templates and a link to software for creating PRISMA 2020 flow diagrams using R software

  • DistillerSR

    Needs subscription. Create coded data extraction forms from templates.

  • EPPI Reviewer

    Needs subscription. Like DistillerSR, tool for text mining, data clustering, classification, and term extraction