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Systematic Reviews: Covidence

Introduction

Covidence is web-based software designed to streamline systematic reviews and enhance collaboration. It saves time by identifying duplicates, allowing multiple researchers to screen citations, abstracts, and full-text articles. Key features include customisable data extraction forms, automatic risk of bias assessment, and Prisma flow chart generation.

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Create an Account via UC

1. Click here to request an invitation to join the UC Covidence account. Use your UC email address.

2. You will receive an email invitation. Click the link in the email to confirm your account.

3. You will be asked to login to Covidence to accept the invitation. If you don't already have a Covidence account, you will need to sign-up. Use your UC email address as your Covidence username.

This short [1:03] video details how to join a Covidence organisational subscription

Training Resources

The Covidence YouTube channel provides a wide range of videos to assist with the systematic review process and use of the software. 

Create a review [video 1:40]

Importing citations [video 5:29]

Screening titles and abstracts [video 3:06]

Uploading PDFs [video 0:37]

Full text review [video 4:49]

Quality assessment [video 6:08]

 

Covidence Knowledge Base

Lots of additional resources can be found via the Covidence Knowledge Base including: 

  • Setting up a review
  • Extraction 1 data extraction: designed for reviews of interventions with a PICO(T) structure, though other reviews might benefit from many of the fields and sections
  • Extraction 2 data extraction: designed for other review types, eg scoping reviews, qualitative reviews etc. Can be used for single reviewer extraction.
  • How to decide when to use Extraction 1 vs Extraction 2 
  • FAQs

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