Feature Comparison for Systematic Literature Review: Nested Knowledge vs Spreadsheets

Stacks of spreadsheets

In the realm of conducting systematic literature reviews (SLRs), the question invariably arises: how do these new technologies compare to the trusty spreadsheet? Spreadsheets offer flexibility and a familiar interface, making them the default choice for many researchers. However, as the demands for more streamlined, faster, and AI-assisted SLRs grow, sophisticated tools like Nested Knowledge […]

PRISMA Flow Diagram: How publications ‘flow’ through the updated PRISMA 2020 process and chart

PRISMA Flow Diagram Example

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.

Extraction

Data extraction, cells

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 […]

Tagging

tagging hierarchy for stroke

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Screening

Screening is as easy as include or exclude.

After your lightbulb moment this morning of starting a new research project on randomized controlled trials of mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke patients, you are now settled at your desk, finalizing what type of search to run for your systematic review. You think you’ve created a pretty solid search and it has come back with a couple hundred articles. But how do you proceed from here?

Create a Great Literature Search

Randomized Controlled Trial[pt] (Filters to RCTs based on the assigned MeSH publication type)

This help article is about searching PubMed via API through the NK Platform. After developing a research question, use NK software to run a literature search on PubMed. These searches can be performed immediately and repeated on a schedule.