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No Second Screener? There's A Robot For That >

Dual screening  is a best practice for conducting systematic reviews, but there’s often not enough...

5 Systematic Review Challenges For Guideline Development (And One Thing You Can Do To Solve Them) >

Systematic reviews play a pivotal role in the development of clinical practice guidelines. But with...

How To Train Your Robot: Best Practices For Automated Screening >

DistillerAI made its global debut on Feb 11, 2018 in the latest release of the DistillerSR...

Want MDR-Ready Literature Reviews? Start Here. >

Fun fact: did you know that the word “literature” appears approximately 30 times in MEDDEV 2.7/1...

Rise Of The Robots: 3 Ways To Leverage Artificial Intelligence In Systematic Reviews Today >

The buzz about artificial intelligence (AI) just keeps getting louder. For the evidence-based...

Your Review, Your Needs: Searching for Systematic Review Software >

So, you’re looking for a systematic review or literature review software and have no idea where to...

2017 Survey on Literature Reviews: 3 Fun Facts Free Infographic >

“What’s your biggest literature review challenge?”

5 Key Terms You Need to Know About Systematic Reviews >

Whether you’re new to systematic reviews or a long-time expert, there are a few key terms that...

New Medical Device Regulations: How Y2K Can Help You Prepare >

*This post was updated in April 2020 to reflect the postponement of the EU MDR deadline.

3 Reasons To Use DistillerSR Systematic Review Software For Data Extraction >

Many groups choose to do the data extraction phase of their systematic review in Distiller...

Vote Or Classify: Which Is Faster For Title And Abstract Screening? >

Two vital tenets of the systematic review process are transparency and reproducibility.  I have...

Putting A Stop To Systematic Review Déjà Vu >

Systematic reviewers are prone to experiencing “déjà vu”, that indescribable gut feeling that...

One Simple Way To Speed Up Your Screening Process >

Have you heard the one about the systematic review group with too much time on their hands? Neither...

Systematic Review Lifecycle Infographic >

*Updated January 7, 2020*

Three New Year’s Resolutions for Systematic Reviewers >

At this time of the year many of us reflect on the past twelve months and make plans for how we can...

Agreement Settings Quick Reference >

When conducting a review, there are a number of different approaches to reference screening. While...

Excluded, but not Forgotten: 3 Tags for Tracking Excluded References in Your Systematic Reviews >

How many times have you stumbled upon an interesting article or website while going about your day,...

Two Simple Tips for Better Data Extraction Questions >

As you likely know, collecting data during a systematic review and working with that data after it...

Data Extraction: Weighing Your Options >

Efficiency and rigour are often competing priorities in the systematic review process, and...

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