LibGuides: Literature Reviews in Health Sciences: Tools for Literature Reviews

Systematic Review Tools

Systematic Review Toolbox
A resource to identify software tools for various steps in the systematic review process.
Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Tools
Freely accessible tools for conducting many types of reviews.
JBI Sumari
facilitates the entire review process, from protocol development, team management, study selection, critical appraisal, data extraction, data synthesis and writing systematic review report
RevMan
for protocols and full reviews
HAWC
one of the software tools the US Office of Health Assessment and Translation is using to help manage systematic review and data display
EPPI-Reviewer
web-based software that supports reference management, screening, coding and synthesis
Reporting Guidelines
The Library contains a comprehensive searchable database of reporting guidelines and also links to other resources relevant to research reporting.

PRISMA flow diagram: http://www.prisma-statement.org/PRISMAStatement/FlowDiagram
PRISMA flow diagram generator: http://prisma.thetacollaborative.ca/

Abstrackr
Web-based annotation tool, currently in beta version
Covidence
screening and data extraction tool
DistillerSR
web-based software that primarily focuses on screening and data extraction.
Rayyan QCRI
Authors create systematic reviews, collaborate on them, maintain them over time and get suggestions for article inclusion.
SysRev
platform for collaborative extraction of data from academic articles and abstracts, PDF documents

AirTable
cloud-based spreadsheet/database hybrid
Revtools
An R package to support article screening for evidence synthesis
Robot Reviewer
automatically extracts and synthesises data from Randomized Controlled Trials
Systematic Review Data Repository
From AHRQ, the Systematic Review Data Repository (SRDR) is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for the extraction and management of data for systematic review or meta-analysis