LibGuides: Scoping Reviews: Step 1b: Examine Scoping Review Tools and Guidelines

Covidence

What is Covidence?

a web-based screening and data extraction tool
Allows for bulk uploads of references and deduplication
Allows the team lead to assign members tasks
Inclusion and exclusion criteria are highlighted during the screening process
Allows for blinded, independent screening of title/abstract & full text
And much more!

Why Covidence?

Reduces bias in the screening process and improves validity of the review
Assists with deduplication
Provides data extraction

Additional Tools

Citation Chaser Citation Chaser can be used to easily identify articles that are citing or are being cited by specific articles you have identified as being relevant to your research topic.
PubMed PubReMiner The PubMed PubReMiner can be used to identify the most used subject headings for your exemplar articles, to help you identify relevant MeSH terms for your search strategy.
Yale MeSH Analyzer A MeSH analysis grid can help identify the problems in your search strategy by presenting the ways articles are indexed in the MEDLINE database in an easy-to-scan tabular format. Librarians can then easily scan the grid and identify appropriate MesH terms, term variants, indexing consistency, and the reasons why some articles are retrieved and others are not. This inevitably leads to fresh iterations of the search strategy to include missing important terms.
MeSH On Demand This simple tool from the NLM will automatically identify potential MeSH terms for a given text, such as a title, abstract, or research question.
Polyglot Search Polyglot is a tool that will automatically translate your search from PubMed to other major databases such as Scopus and CINAHL. Note that Polyglot can only translate search syntax, so you will still need to manually translate your controlled vocabulary terms.
Systematic Review Accelator The Systematic Review Accelerator is a collection of tools to help automate and streamline the SR process.
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SR accelerator tools include tools for: writing the methods section of the report, word frequency analysis, testing your search against exemplar articles, translating your search to different databases, de-duplicating search results, screening articles, resolving screening disputes, and citation chasing. Note that many of the tools are in beta, and their results may vary.
The Systematic Review Toolbox The Systematic Review Toolbox is an online catalogue of tools that support various tasks within the systematic review and wider evidence synthesis process. You can use the toolbox to search for help with a specific task, or browse tools by what stage of the systematic review you are working on.

Data Extraction Tools

Covidence: allows you to create and publish a data extraction template with text fields, single choice items, section headings and subheadings, perform dual reviewer data extraction, review extractions for consensus and export data extracted to a csv file.

Spreadsheets or Database Software (Excel or Google Sheets):

Spreadsheets or database software can be used to create custom extraction forms. Spreadsheet software (such as Microsoft Excel) has functions such as drop-down menus and range checks, which can perform data collection efficiently and help to prevent data entry errors.

Survey or Form Software (Qualtrics, Poll Everywhere, or Google Forms)

These tools allow the reviewers to create custom forms with a variety of question types to collect data in a standardized format

Qualtrics can be found in the ATSU portal

Go to Step 8 for more information about Data Extraction.