DistillerSR Evidence Matters LinkedIn Newsletter: September 12, 2022
5 Ways to Streamline Your Systematic Literature Reviews with DistillerSR
Chris Waters-Bankers is the Director of Consulting Operations at Maple Health Group. She conducts both targeted and systematic literature reviews. Their reviews often require screening thousands, even tens of thousands of citations to support evidence gap analysis, global value dossiers and health technology assessments. Complying with tight deadlines while managing large volumes of evidence-based research is one of their main challenges and one of the reasons why Chris and her team implemented DistillerSR to help them improve the efficiency of their literature reviews. “Having a cloud-based platform that enables us to work collaboratively and simplifies the screening process has been critical to keeping up with the demands of our customers”, says Chris. DistillerSR’s flexibility translated into a customized workflow that streamlines the inclusion and exclusion of articles in addition to creating a repeatable process that can be replicated across various projects.
One of Chris’ favourite DistillerSR features is the ability to filter and label specific citations, enabling researchers to automate conditional workflows and build succinct reports.
Here are the top 5 ways Chris and her team use DistillerSR’s filtering feature to optimize their systematic literature review processes:
1. Utilizing labels during reference upload
Applying labels during the import process allows the user to upload multiple sets of reference files to one project, eliminating the need to create separate projects. These labels will enable you to track citations through each screening level and create filters to direct citation towards their corresponding SLR screening forms.
2. Utilizing filters to assign screening batches to multiple reviewers
Filters can be used to direct a specific batch of citations by specifying a reference identification (REFID) range to a set of reviewers for duplicate screening. This will enable project managers to closely monitor progress and make any adjustments along the way, as needed.
3. Assigning labels during the screening process
Systematic literature review selection criteria normally start quite broad and become more refined during the screening process. Reviewers can apply labels to group study design types (i.e. randomized clinical trials, cohort trials, observational studies) in specific forms and review these volumes with their customer to decide whether further review is needed for each of these groups. At that point, you can easily include or exclude these groups.
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4. Using labels and filters as risk mitigation for the dreaded “missed citation”
Applying broad search strategies across multiple systematic literature reviews for the same disease area will invariably result in overlap citations. Filtering your reviews by type of outcome will allow you to identify these duplicates faster and recognize if a publication filtered from another SLR is a duplicate or a unique citation.
5. Using labels and filters to improve resource allocation?
DistillerSR’s filtering function is completely flexible. Filtering citations or a group of citations by REFID range, label, % of references and by a specific form question, for example, will allow you to meet your project requirements, improve the speed of your screening process and focus on the later stages of your review.
Read the full blog post here: https://blog.evidencepartners.com/the-distillersr-feature-i-cannot-live-without-and-5-ways-i-use-it
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