Tools & Resources
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ)
ICTRP International Clinical Trials Registry Platform
https://www.who.int/clinical-trials-registry-platform
PROSPERO International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews
https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/
U.S. National Institutes of Health: U.S. National Library of Medicine
ClinicalTrials.gov
WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform
https://www.who.int/clinical-trials-registry-platform
Abstrackr
http://abstrackr.cebm.brown.edu
A free web-based screening tool that can prioritize the screening of records using machine learning techniques.
Colandr
https://www.colandrapp.com
Effectively sort through information sets that are too large to be sorted effectively by humans. Colandr will help screen through title/abstract, rank relevance as you screen, it will learn relevance based on your choices and auto sort citations.
Machine learning for evidence synthesis: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13117
Covidence
A web-based soft ware platform for conducting systematic reviews, which includes support for collaborative title and abstract screening, full-text review, risk-of-bias assessment and data extraction. Full access to this system normally requires a paid subscription but is free for authors of Cochrane Reviews. A free trial for non-Cochrane review authors is also available, with two reviewers and up to 500 citations.
DistillerSR
A web-based soft ware application for undertaking bibliographic record screening and data extraction. It has a number of management features to track progress, assess inter rater reliability and export data for further analysis. Reduced pricing for Cochrane and Campbell reviews is available.
EPPI-Reviewer
Web-based soft ware designed to support all stages of the systematic review process, including reference management, screening, risk of bias assessment, data extraction and synthesis. The system is free to use for Cochrane and Campbell reviews, otherwise it requires a paid subscription. A free trial is available.
GRADEPro GDT
https://gradepro.org/
Guideline Development Tool
The GRADE handbook describes the process of rating the quality of the best available evidence and developing health care recommendations following the approach proposed by the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Working Group (www.gradeworkinggroup.org).
PRISMA
http://prisma-statement.org/
PRISMA is an evidence-based minimum set of items for reporting in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. PRISMA primarily focuses on the reporting of reviews evaluating the effects of interventions, but can also be used as a basis for reporting systematic reviews with objectives other than evaluating interventions (e.g. evaluating aetiology, prevalence, diagnosis or prognosis).
Rayyan
https://www.rayyan.ai
Works with citation management software for importing citations. Allows team review of title, abstract, and full text resources that you've initially identified for inclusion in your systematic review. Allows for various functions, including navigating citations, filtering, labeling, excluding, collaborating, and includes an ai function that applies labels based on your previous decisions. Free on the web.
RevMan
https://revman.cochrane.org/
Review Manager (RevMan) is The Cochrane Collaboration's software for preparing and maintaining Cochrane reviews. RevMan facilitates preparation of protocols and full reviews, including text, characteristics of studies, comparison tables, and study data.