![]() TTi builds on Testing Treatments, a successful book written for the public, which is available to download for free in more than a dozen languages. However, TTi SHOULD help to promote critical thinking about the treatment claims that people encounter. Please note that TTi is NOT for specific advice on particular treatments. Testing Treatments international (TTi) provides open access to learning resources for people who want to (or help others to) acquire those skills. ![]() Skills are needed to spot claims that are unreliable. Unfortunately, it is often hard to tell whether a treatment claim is untrustworthy. Unwarranted faith in untrustworthy claims causes people to suffer by using ineffective or harmful treatments, or failing to use effective ones. Many treatment claims are untrustworthy, however. The checklist and details on its development.Īimed at both patients and professionals, the book Testing Treatments builds a lively and thought provoking argument for better, more reliable, more relevant research, with unbiased or ‘fair’ trials, and explains how patients can work with doctors to achieve this vital goal. We also wanted to provide a checklist enabling the items suggested to fit into any set of headings mandated by a journal or conference submission. After observing that the quality of abstracts of systematic reviews is still poor, we decided to develop an extension to the PRISMA Statement to provide additional guidance on writing abstracts for systematic reviews. The PRISMA Statement gives some guidance for abstracts, closely linked to commonly used headings in structured abstracts. Readers in countries where English is not the primary language may have access to an abstract translated to their own language, but not to a translated full text. This can be because of a pay wall, low Internet download capacity, or if the full article is only available in a language not understood by the reader. Spidercite - Automatically finds and downloads any citing and cited articles from an uploaded set of studies, used for conducting citation searching.Ĭontact us to suggest improvements or report problems on our feedback page.Ībstracts of systematic reviews are very important, as some readers cannot access the full paper, such that abstracts may be the only option for gleaning research results. MethodsWizard - A semi-automated tool to guide the systematic review team through the writeup of the methods section of a systematic review protocol. ![]() Screenatron - Increases the speed of title/abstract screening by combining customizable hotkeys with a streamlined user interface to allow the reviewer to quickly include or exclude articles. This speeds up the resolution of the disagreement process. Disputatron - Detects screening decision disagreements between reviewers.SearchRefiner - Refines the search strategy so that it is maximally efficient in finding only the relevant literature and leaving out irrelevant literature (decreases the screening workload).RevMan Replicant (Login required) - Automatically writes the results of the systematic review from meta-analyses (forest plots), thus decreasing errors and time to complete the write-up.Deduplicator - Identifies and removes duplicate studies from search results (to decrease the reference screening workload).Polyglot Search Translator - Automatically (rather than manually) translates the search string between multiple databases (which have their own syntaxes).Word Frequency Analyser - Assists with designing the search strings to find the relevant literature to answer the systematic review question. ![]() The SRA tools are freely available for anyone in the world to use. Existing tools are being continuously reviewed and refined, and additional tools are being developed. SRA tools assist with many steps of a systematic review, including searching for citations, citation screening and write-up of review findings, among others. The Systematic Review Accelerator (SRA) is a suite of automation tools, purpose-built to speed up multiple steps in the systematic review (SR) process.
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