1. What is the 'link to suggestions' field?

Covidence uses advanced large language models to accurately identify and extract intervention groups (arms) from a study's full text (98% accuracy, 95% recall). 

The 'Link to suggestions' field enables you to connect these automatically extracted intervention groups (arms) with the template-defined interventions in the extraction form. 

2. How do I use the 'link to suggestions' field?

Select the suggestion that is most relevant to the intervention you have selected from your template e.g. For the template intervention “Intervention” select the suggestion “Vitamin C”.

 

 

If there is no relevant suggestion, select 'No relevant suggestion'.

 

 

3. Why would l need to use it?

By using the “Link to suggestions” field, you are helping Covidence improve its automation capabilities. Teams that use the “Link to suggestions” field will also be able to leverage any future automation offerings released by Covidence, including characteristics and result data suggestions.

4.  What will happen if I don’t use it?

Using the “Link to suggestions” field is optional.

5. Why would I need to create multiple groups linked to template-defined interventions?

Many studies have one intervention group and one comparison group. However, it can get more complex. As an example, imagine a study that reports different variations of an intervention. In that case you will have multiple intervention groups (arms) which are given different variations of the intervention e.g. different doses, different locations.

In this case, you will want to extract all the relevant intervention groups (arms) and this is why it’s useful to be able to add multiple groups (arms) linked to your template-defined interventions and add a group name for accurate reporting

6. What is the group name field?

The “group name” field helps distinguish between multiple groups (arms) receiving the same intervention category e.g. Vitamin C 250 mg vs. Vitamin C 500 mg

It also helps you extract the group name as it’s reported in the study whilst mapping it to your template defined interventions.