Guides
Guides to the tasks of a systematic review, whatever tool you use. Each one says when it was checked, prints on A4 or US Letter, and may be copied and adapted under CC BY 4.0.
Reporting
- PRISMA 2020 flow diagrams that survive Word
Keep a PRISMA 2020 diagram whole in Word: one object in line with the text, at its final width, at the resolution your journal asks for.
- The PRISMA 2020 flow diagram: counting every box
Fill in every box of the PRISMA 2020 flow diagram in the template’s own words, with the sums that must hold and a tally sheet to print.
Screening
- Agreement between screeners: percent, Cohen’s kappa and PABAK
Work out percent agreement, Cohen’s kappa and PABAK from four counts, see why kappa runs low in screening, and report all three in one sentence.
- How to screen titles and abstracts
Pilot your criteria, decide each record as Include, Maybe or Exclude, write notes a colleague can follow, and plan your time, with sheets to print.
- Removing duplicates, with a record of each one
Remove duplicate records before screening without losing a study, keep a log of every removal, and report the number PRISMA 2020 asks for.
- Screening alone or with a colleague
What each standard asks of screeners, what one screener can miss, and three ways to work with a colleague without sharing a login, with methods sentences.
Searching
- Exporting search results for screening, database by database
Export every result, abstracts included, from eight platforms within each export limit, and check that each file holds the count the search showed.