You’ve had enough. After months of struggling to collaborate with distant colleagues, wasting hours cleaning up data, and feeling like every task is taking way too long, you know you need to find help for your systematic review woes. Systematic review software helps...
We hear it over and over again: there’s not enough time. Demand for evidence has been increasing steadily in recent years, and it shows no signs of stopping. Evidence-based research is informing decisions and policy in a wide range of fields and is increasingly used...
During the data extraction stage of a systematic review, you’re typically dealing with one of two types of data: data that occurs only once in a study (such as the study type, size, and other characteristics), or data that repeats (such as the data collected at each...
Whether you’re choosing your next car or replacing your worn out sneakers, it's generally a good idea to do your research before you pull out your wallet. The same applies when looking for software to help with your systematic review process. The tools available in...
Systematic reviews are viewed as the gold standard for evidence-based research. Used in a wide variety of healthcare fields including health economics outcomes research (HEOR), regulatory compliance, guidelines development, and evidence-based medicine, they are also...
*This post was updated in April 2020 to reflect the postponement of the EU MDR deadline. If you’re involved in the preparation of Clinical Evaluation Reports (CERs) for medical devices, you’re likely to find yourself doing a lot more literature reviews in the near...
Dual screening is a best practice for conducting systematic reviews, but there’s often not enough time or resources to have two people screen each reference. Good news: DistillerSR’s new automated screening tool, DistillerAI, can be used as the second screener. That’s...
Systematic reviews play a pivotal role in the development of clinical practice guidelines. But with everything else that goes into the process, who has time to learn to use systematic review software? You’ve got to manage staff and volunteers, juggle deadlines, and...
DistillerAI made its global debut on Feb 11, 2018 in the latest release of the DistillerSR systematic review software platform. Since then, researchers around the world have been testing it and applying it to their literature reviews. In the process, they’ve...
Fun fact: did you know that the word “literature” appears approximately 30 times in MEDDEV 2.7/1 rev.4? If you’re involved in the preparation of Clinical Evaluation Reports (CERs), you are likely beginning to realize the important role that literature reviews play in...