Covidence: Systematic Review Tool guide

Covidence is a systematic reviews production tool for title/abstract screening, full-text screening, data abstraction, and quality assessment. Covidence was designed by researchers familiar with the systematic review process in order to make conducting reviews more efficient. It is the primary screening and data extraction tool for Cochrane authors. 

Covidence streamlines the production of systematic reviews through:

• Citation screening
• Full text review
• Risk of Bias assessment
• Extraction of study characteristics and outcomes
• Export of data and references

Key Features

• Support for duplicated, independent processes, including at citation screening, full text review, Risk of Bias (RoB) and Data Extraction stages
• Resolution of screening, RoB, and data extraction conflicts, and agreement on final consensus data
• Import of citations from a range of reference managers and de-duplication of study citations (with manual override)
• Storage of full text study reports
• Automatic population of Risk of Bias tables with text selected in full text reports
• Simple export of data

Learn about other tools for systematic reviews on the HSLIC Systematic Reviews Guide.

If you would like to learn more on your own about Covidence, they have additional informational resources:

Special thanks to the UNC Covidence LibGuide and UNM HSLIC Librarian Ingrid Hendrix