Covidence is an online platform that assists you to efficiently manage your literature review, including complex reviews such systematic, scoping, umbrella and rapid reviews. The software supports you through the planning, conducting, and reporting of your review online and enables easy collaboration with colleagues, both within and outside of your institution.
Covidence is recommended by Cochrane as the primary screening and data extraction platform for doing Cochrane standard intervention reviews.
Covidence is available to staff of EMHS and SMHS via a library subscription.
To request a review, please complete the request form using the link below.
There is no limit to the number of reviews you can request.
Covidence provides extensive training materials online, via a knowledge base and blog as well as an email support service for more complex queries.
Support is also available from the Library.
"Critical appraisal is the process of carefully and systematically assessing the outcome of scientific research (evidence) to judge its trustworthiness, value and relevance in a particular context.
Critical appraisal looks at the way a study is conducted and examines factors such as internal validity, generalizability and relevance."
Centre for Evidence-Based Management (CEBMa)