Efficiency and rigour are often competing priorities in the systematic review process, and achieving both without sacrificing either is a challenge. When it comes to the data extraction step of a systematic review, most of the groups we work with use one of three...
Vivian MacAdden
Reviewer Calibration: Are We On The Same Page?
DistillerSR users often cite the “human factor” in systematic reviews as one of the major challenges that the software helps them mitigate. And when you have multiple humans with differing experience and knowledge screening references, the potential for conflict - and...
Title and Abstract Screening: Opportunity Missed
Once you have completed your initial reference search, the first step in a systematic review is to screen your search results by title and abstract to weed out the ones that obviously don’t belong in your review. This is typically done either by a single screener, or...
Time to Upgrade to DistillerSR v2
Effective June 30, 2016, all DistillerSR users will be upgraded to DistillerSR v2, which offers an improved user interface and a number of new features. The new version is completely backward compatible – all current projects will continue to work exactly as they do...






