tools and interfaces for systematic reviews

The Tools of the tradeLightning session 1: Tools and interfaces

for systematic reviews

Jessica Thomas and Jacob Riis, Silos Inc.

1. Where are we now?

2. What do we need to do?

Where are we?

Cochrane has:

● The Cochrane Library

● RevMan

● Archie

● Cochrane.org community pages

● CRS

There are lots of other useful tools - We’ve started sharing them:

ims.cochrane.org/revman/other-resources

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We need to:

A. Make authors more efficient - and Happy!

B: Make machines more efficient (and happy)?

C: Make tasty data

What do we need to do A: Make authors more efficient and Happy!

Fix the problems of smoothing the process between software

We need to work on our APIs...

...this will take time

Make new software

What else do we need to do?

What one author wants is not what another wants

Allow flexible reviews:

Make modular

Move online to give more freedom

What do we need to do B: Make machines more efficient (and happy)!

How much can we automate?

What can we start to automate using tools we have?

Primary StudiesCRS

Author Support Tools

RevMan

The Cochrane Library

What other tools do we need to improve automation?

What do we need to do

C: Make tasty data

Harness the power of getting primary studies in early

How could we get primary studies auto-feeding into systematic reviews as they both develop?

Can we take advantage of All trials success and get primary studies registered and available on an ongoing basis?

...data builds & is auto-fed in to registered systematic review…?

WIKITRIALS?

● Crowdsourced● Global resource for post-publication

peer-review● Producers & users systematic

review data - tasty!