Systematic Reviews: Screening

Covidence is a web-based tool that streamlines the production of systematic and scoping reviews. It supports title and abstract, and full-text screening, risk of bias assessment, the extraction of study characteristics and outcomes, and the export of data and references.

Covidence is the primary screening and data extraction tool for Cochrane authors, and has recently been endorsed by the Joanna Briggs Institute.

How to access Covidence:

• A free trial version allows you to create one review for screening by two reviewers. Covidence accounts created after May 2018 are limited to screening 500 records only.
   
• Covidence is free for Cochrane authors when working on Cochrane reviews. Use your Cochrane credentials to login at the Covidence homepage.
   
• The University has purchased a site licence for 100 reviews. To access one of the 100 reviews please contact Debbie Booth with details of your review.

More information:

Babineau, J. (2014). Product review: Covidence. Journal fo the Canadian Health Libraries Association. 35(2). https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/jchla/index.php/jchla/article/view/22892

Kellermeyer, L., Harnke, B., Knight, S. (2018). Covidence and Rayyan. Journal of the Medical Library Association. http://jmla.pitt.edu/ojs/jmla/article/view/513