Practical advice for screening in Covidence
Two-step screening
Title and abstract screening helps to decide whether or not a study is eligible by looking at its title and abstract only. This first pass narrows down the list of potentially eligible studies that you will consider in step two, full text screening. This is shown in figure 1.
First pass: Title and abstract
Second pass: Full text review
When your studies move to the full text stage of your review, Covidence automatically adds the PDFs of open access articles. ? To add the rest, there are two options:
Reaching consensus
Measuring agreement
Extracting the data
In conclusion