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Sensitive searches by Trials Search Co-ordinators (TSCs) across multiple databases, either performed for specialised registers or for reviews, result in large numbers of citations to screen. ScreenToGo is a mobile app to help ‘chip away’ at citations while on the move.
Description:
The session will detail how citations are downloaded, screening categories set, and enable participants to test the app on a phone/tablet: to tap and swipe at a batch of citations. Additional features shown include being able to randomise the order of citations and view inter-screener agreement between those screening the same citations. Time will be spent considering the potential application of this app in terms of volunteer engagement. Finally, for TSCs, we will demonstrate how the citations screened could feed into the Cochrane Register of Studies. The workshop was first run at the UK Contributors Meeting in 2011. Feedback included the following comments: interactive, well-presented, informative and opening up ‘endless possibilities’. ScreenToGo offers an innovative and flexible way of performing a vital task for Cochrane reviews. It also offers a unique task-based volunteering opportunity for anyone with an interest and an iPhone! ScreenToGo was designed and developed in an academic setting by PhD student Christopher (Kit) Huckvale.
Sensitive searches by Trials Search Co-ordinators (TSCs) across multiple databases, either performed for specialised registers or for reviews, result in large numbers of citations to screen. ScreenToGo is a mobile app to help ‘chip away’ at citations while on the move.
Description:
The session will detail how citations are downloaded, screening categories set, and enable participants to test the app on a phone/tablet: to tap and swipe at a batch of citations. Additional features shown include being able to randomise the order of citations and view inter-screener agreement between those screening the same citations. Time will be spent considering the potential application of this app in terms of volunteer engagement. Finally, for TSCs, we will demonstrate how the citations screened could feed into the Cochrane Register of Studies. The workshop was first run at the UK Contributors Meeting in 2011. Feedback included the following comments: interactive, well-presented, informative and opening up ‘endless possibilities’. ScreenToGo offers an innovative and flexible way of performing a vital task for Cochrane reviews. It also offers a unique task-based volunteering opportunity for anyone with an interest and an iPhone! ScreenToGo was designed and developed in an academic setting by PhD student Christopher (Kit) Huckvale.