Frequently Asked Questions

1. A brief description of the systematic review (abstract).
2. Prospero registration link (if available).
3. CSV document containing two columns (title of citation, and abstract), with one row per citation. Both title and abstract should be on same line.
4. Identify how many levels of screenings are involved (1-3).
5. Screening criteria for each level: preferably with 1-2 words highlighting the criteria first (ie: INTERVENTIONAL: study was interventional, and not observational ...). Having a highlighted first word has shown to help students identify the correct criteria.

You can provide a list of citations that would be used as demo (5-10 are usually enough). Similar to the previous CSV of citations, the file should contain citation title, abstract, screening level, whether it is to be retained or excluded and if excluded the numerical identification of the non satisfied eligibility criteria.
This list is preferably provided from a previous version of the SR (if this is an update). If not, you can chose to use some citations of the project and provided them with the answers. However, in this case these citations should be removed from the list of citations to be assessed, as students have already been provided with the correct answer in the demo version.

The website is designed to support two methods of PDFs attachment:
1. By the PI: Using the PDF tab in the PI page, you can attach the PDFs files to the citations one by one. Your entries will be instantly visible to students.
2. By the Students: Using the PDF tab in the Students page, they can do the same. However, unlike the PI entries, the students entry are not final and they require verification that the attached PDF is accurately representing the citation. This could be done by a fellow student, or by the PI.
Papers that were retained at Level 1 would not be shown in Level 2 or further until a PDF has been attached.
f your SR does not involve an abstract level, you can let the admin knows and all of your papers would be automatically moved to Level 2, where full text elegibility can be assessed.

1. Numbers of assessments per citation: Numbers of assessments to be obtained by students for each citation.
2. Numbers needed to retain: Number of students assessments indicating that the citation is to be retained before it is allowed to move to the next level. PIs might lower this numbers to allow their SR to be more sensitive to eligible trials, however this might increase the amount of work required in the next level.
3. Numbers needed to exclude: Similar to previous, but indicates exclusion assessments. PIs might increase this number to increase their sensitivity, by ensuring only citations where most students have agreed on exclusion to be removed.
4. Numbers of allowable unclear: This indicates the number of assessments choosing unclear before a citation is moved to the PI for decision. Usually, citations with several unclear assessments are more difficult for students to assess. Removing them from the students list, after they have reached this number would allow the students to focus on the rest.
5. Full assessment checkbox: Validating this checkbox indicates that each citation needs to obtain the total number of assessments before moving to the next level or being excluded, even though it has already qualified by exceeding one of the numbers needed to retain/to exclude.

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