You can remove a co-reviewer from your review via the Settings >> Reviewers page by clicking ‘Remove’ next to the co-reviewer that you wish to remove. 

When you remove a reviewer from a review in Covidence, they will no longer be able to access or contribute to the systematic review. However, their previous votes and decisions remain unless you manually undo them. This means you may still see reviewers who have been removed from the review listed as having contributed to the voting.

Remove a reviewer in screening

If a reviewer is removed from a review a the title and abstract or the full-text review stage, they will no longer be able to work on a review, but their votes will still be counted, so you will still see them as having contributed to the votes cast.

Remove a reviewer in extraction

A reviewer who has not contributed to or been assigned to any data extraction or quality assessment can be removed from the review. They will not be notified of this change. They will no longer be listed in as a reviewer in the Settings section and they will no longer be able to access the review or any of its data.

In Extraction 1, a reviewer cannot be removed if they are associated with extraction of data.

In both Extraction 1 and Extraction 2 it is possible to re-assign the extraction or quality assessment forms of the same studies to another reviewer. You can do this by clicking on the 'Manage reviewers' function beneath each study. During re-assignment, the system will ask if you want to keep work already done or start over.

Note that removing a co-reviewer from your free trial review will not credit you the option to invite an alternative co-reviewer. If you'd like to do this, you'll need to upgrade your subscription to a paid plan.