Covidence

Welcome to the Covidence Subject Guide

This guide is designed to help review teams navigate and utilize Covidence, an online evidence synthesis management tool. This basic introduction to Covidence provides instructions for creating your account via FSU's organizational subscription sponsored by the Maguire Medical Library.

Explore the sections of this guide to find tips on how to make the most of Covidence, as well as access to FSU's site-wide subscription for unlimited reviews, users, collaborators, and support. If you have any questions or issues with Covidence, please contact the Maguire Medical Library.

Covidence is an online evidence synthesis workflow platform designed to make it easier and faster to bring together all the research from around the globe and turn it into trustworthy summaries of scientific knowledge. Developed to facilitate and streamline systematic reviews methods, Covidence is a trusted resource for the investigators conducting evidence synthesis in the health sciences and related disciplines. Key features of FSU's subscription:

• Create Multiple Projects: Create unlimited review projects and invite colleagues from any institution to join as co-reviewers.
• Import Citations: Import unlimited citations from any database or reference managers like EndNote, Zotero, or any tool that supports EndNote XML or RIS text formats.
• Screen Titles and Abstracts: Collaborate with invited co-reviewers for blinded title and abstract screening of an unlimited number of references. Use machine learning, tags, and notes to sort studies by relevance based on previous voting behavior. Adhere to PRISMA reporting guidelines and increase reproducibility by documenting decisions in real time. Reduce bias with built-in third-reviewer conflict resolution to reach consensus.
• Review Full-Text: Bulk-upload full-text PDFs to inform the team’s blinded decisions to include, exclude, and reach consensus for each study. Document inclusion or exclusion reasons with the team’s pre-determined criteria.
• Extract Data: Use Covidence’s data extraction form template to collect data for further analysis — or customize your own form to meet the needs of your project’s methods and aims. Export collected data into files usable by data analysis software tools.
• Assess quality: Assess included studies’ quality using Covidence’s built-in quality assessment form template or customize your own. Compare review input to reach consensus; export results into a file for upload into the team’s chosen data analysis software program.

Covidence is designed to manage multiple aspects the evidence synthesis process, providing flexibility based on evidence synthesis type and the team's needs and preferences.  

[Getting Started with Covidence] 

Overview of Covidence

Learn the most important things to know to get started with Covidence in this concise introductory video:

• 00:00 🔗 Invitation
• 00:34 📥 Importing References
• 01:24 📝 Title and Abstract Screening
• 02:51 📄 Full-Text Screening and PRISMA
• 03:32 📊 Data Extraction
• 04:40 🤝 Consensus and Quality Assessment
• 05:14 📤 Exporting

Watch more Getting Started videos on Covidence's YouTube channel.