Vivian MacAdden

Vivian MacAdden

Vivian MacAdden is DistillerSR's Senior Manager, Industry Marketing - Medical Devices. Throughout her career, she has accumulated 20 years of strategic marketing experience in various industries in Canada and international markets such as Brazil, China, Singapore, Jordan and Japan. A problem solver at heart and forever an optimist (and karaoke lover), she is passionate about telling great stories that make a positive impact on the world.
Data Extraction: Weighing Your Options

Data Extraction: Weighing Your Options

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...

Reviewer Calibration: Are We On The Same Page?

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...

Time to Upgrade to DistillerSR v2

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...