If you're too old to get that pun, your ancient and withered librarians do NOT want to hear about it. Thank you for respecting our boundaries. Rayyan, the real Rayyan, is a free tool for systematic reviews.
So! Let's talk systematic reviews. To recap, they look a little bit like this:
Designed by Jessica Kaufman, Cochrane Consumers & Communication Review Group, Centre for Health Communication & Participation, La Trobe University, 2011.
The green and yellow parts of the systematic review "funnel" are where most of the blood, sweat, and tears happen. The good news is that we have a tool that helps alleviate some of that pain: Rayyan. Rayyan is a free web-tool designed to help researchers working on systematic reviews and other knowledge synthesis projects. It can help you dramatically speed up the process of screening and selecting studies.
Synthesis of multiple randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in a systematic review can summarize the effects of individual outcomes and provide numerical answers about the effectiveness of interventions. Filtering of searches is time consuming, and no single method fulfills the principal requirements of speed with accuracy. Automation of systematic reviews is driven by a necessity to expedite the availability of current best evidence for policy and clinical decision-making.
We developed Rayyan (http://rayyan.qcri.org), a free web and mobile app, that helps expedite the initial screening of abstracts and titles using a process of semi-automation while incorporating a high level of usability (Ouzzani et al. 2016).
You can see a full, quick start tutorial from one of our own here or view our guide for step-by-step instructions (https://hslib.jabsom.hawaii.edu/rayyan):
Follow us
Follow us
Follow us
0 Comments.