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How to Conduct Title Screening for Systemic

Review- Using Endnote Covidence

Dr. Nancy Agnes, Head, Technical Operations, Pubrica, sales@pubrica.com

I. IN BRIEF

The Title Screening and Evaluation in Systematic

Review's objectives were to gather preliminary data

on the quality of medical researcher's title screening

andthe impact of screening modality on screening

accuracy and performance. The second phase in

research detection, full-text article screening, was left

out because the characteristics of this task vary

significantly from citation screening (1)

.

Introduction

The title must be clear, explicit and reflect the core

elements of the question. It should be as detailed and

informative as possible, representing the nature and

style of systematic analysis that will be conducted.

The title would not be phrased as a challenge or a

conclusion, and the title, analysis

objectives/questions, and inclusion requirements

should all be consistent. In an analysis protocol, the

title should contain the phrases "A formal review

protocol" and "A systematic re-evaluation protocol."

While various mnemonics have been identified for

various forms of analysis (and research) issues, if the

review, for example, seeks to investigate the

aetiology of illness or the likelihood of a health

consequence, this should be mentioned explicitly as

possible in the document's title. If separate exposures

and patient effects are being investigated, they should

be included in the title (2)

.

"Long-term topical corticosteroid use and skin cancer

risk: a comprehensive evaluation protocol," for

example. This example identifies the population, the

exposure (corticosteroid use), and the result

(incidence of skin cancer) of concern and the fact that

the study is a standardized review procedure.

II. TITLE SCREENING PROCESS

Multiple reviewers (you and your superiors or co-

reviewers) will decide the papers to include and

remove based on the parameters defined in your

procedure when checking the final search results

from your preferred databases (and other sources, if

relevant). The first stage is typically focused on titles

and abstracts, followed by complete text analysis and

data extraction.

1. Pre-screening: Before the beginning screening,

keep track of the number of findings from each

database or source.

2. Title and abstract screening: Each reviewer

will check titles and abstracts to see whether they

meet the requirements or add meaning to the

systematic review analysis. Each critic does this

independently to ensure there is no bias. After

that, the results are compared.

3. Full-text screening: To fine-tune the final list of

papers that would apply to analysis, several

reviewers independently look at the full-text of

included posts (3)

.

III. TITLE SCREENING OVERVIEW

You must screen the results after you have run your

search on the databases mentioned in your protocol.

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Screening is a two-step procedure that determines

whether each article satisfies the inclusion

requirements and, as a result, should be included in

your analysis.

To reduce bias, you must have a minimum of two

reviewers to screen (yourself and someone else from

your team).

IV. HOW DO I SCREEN?

Save the final version of your search technique in

each database that you defined in your protocol after

you've done building it. Once you've got them all set

up, run each one and export all of your results to

EndNote, keeping each database's results in its

community. Keep your EndNote Library secure and

backed up since you'll use it for full text and your

PRISMA flowchart (reporting).

From EndNote, export your references. Then

import to Covidence to commence screening.

V. ENDNOTE OVERVIEW

We suggest exporting the database search results into

EndNote to prepare for screening. EndNote Desktop

is recommended over EndNote Web for compatibility

and ease of use. Start by familiarising yourself with

EndNote in general if you're new to the software. The

Library provides a variety of services to assist you.

UniSA EndNote guide

A step by step guide for getting started with

EndNote.

EndNote Essentials workshops

Register for upcoming face-to-face or online

workshops to learn EndNote.

Installing EndNote

Install EndNote on your computer (Windows or Mac

OS)(4)

VI. COVIDENCE OVERVIEW

It is a web-based software that assists researchers to

screen references and undertake data extraction.

VII. CONCLUSION

The viability of including medical researchers in

screening titles for systematic reviews was shown in

the Title screening and assessment of the systemic

analysis. ReGroup, a web-based systematic analysis

tool increased screening decisions' sensitivity, but the

four modalities tested were otherwise identical. The

researcher's screening success was moderate and

highly variable, and diverse reward systems,

preparation and support, and alternate

methodological methods could help.We propose that

non-expert groups and emerging tools for title

screening be investigated further to increase the

quality of systemic review processing(5)

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1. Dressler, J., et al. "Factors affecting patient

adherence to publicly funded colorectal cancer

screening programmes: A systematic

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2. Hamel, Candyce, et al. "Few evaluative studies

exist examining rapid review methodology

across stages of conduct: a systematic scoping

review." Journal of Clinical

Epidemiology (2020).

3. Gates, Allison, et al. "The semi-automation of

title and abstract screening: a retrospective

exploration of ways to leverage Abstrackr's

relevance predictions in systematic and rapid

reviews." BMC medical research

methodology 20 (2020): 1-9.

4. Hamel, C., et al. "An evaluation of DistillerSR's

machine learning-based prioritization tool for

title/abstract screening–impact on reviewer-

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5. Gates, Allison, et al. "Decoding semi-automated

title-abstract screening: a retrospective

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characteristics associated with accurate relevance

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