PRISMA Flow Diagram: How publications ‘flow’ through the updated PRISMA 2020 process and chart
The PRISMA Flow Diagram has become a standard part of any systematic review or meta-analysis, and with good reason– it is the most widely accepted method to show the process by which the studies included in a review were included (or excluded). It also shows the different possible steps of a review, different potential sources (from PubMed to ‘expert recommendations’), and the exact reasons you set up to differentiate the wheat from the chaff among the studies you examined.
Test driving Systematic Review software: What does “Feature Complete” look like?
Though there are over 240 tools for systematic review on the SR Toolbox, only 24 are functioning, web-based softwares for pre-clinical or clinical review. These range from academic projects to COVID-inspired living visualizations, so not every tool was intended to cover every feature recommended by Mierden/Harrison/Marshall/Kohl, but all tools cover the essential steps of adding studies, screening, and extracting and presenting some sort of review data. Table 4 in the Results section of our freely available feature assessment lays out all the options.
Extraction
June 3, 2022 This help article is about performing data extraction for meta-analyses in the NK Platform. If you just want basic instructions, feel free to check out this part of our wiki. Meta-Analytical Extraction is quite contentious at NK. It is one of those things you either love or hate with the fire of […]
Paper Spotlight: Mechanical Thrombectomy in Anterior vs. Posterior Stroke
May 25, 2022 Let’s take a quick peek at an actual manuscript published using our software. Check it out! Seeing a manuscript through to publication is stressful. You have spent months searching, screening, extracting, analyzing, and writing to be at the whim of some random peer reviewers who don’t see your manuscript as the masterpiece […]
