What are some free tools that can be used to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis? Beginning from the first step, kindly let know for each step separately of some comprehensive tool that covers all these.
1. Protocol registration?
2. Literature search, title and abstract selction? Visual tool to depict the PRISMA study flow?
3. Data abstraction?
4. Risk of Bias Analysis for each kind of included studies (RCT's, non-randomised studies, single prospective cohort, retrospective case series)? Visualizatiuon tools to represent the ROB?
5. Statistical analysis (meta-analysis of comparing interventions, single arm meta-analysis, network meta-analysis, meta-review, overlap analysis in meta-reviews) and visulaization tools to depict the results graphically?
6. Summary of findings table, evidence profile and evidence based practice recommendations?
#1
https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/
https://guides.library.unisa.edu.au/ScopingReviews/Protocol
#5
https://ebmh.bmj.com/content/22/4/153
Hi Singh
For systematic review & Meta-analysis I have found RevMan as a useful tool , free and user friendly. With this software you can generate PRISMA ow diagram, forest plots, funnel plots, Risk of bias and quality as outlined by Corchrane guideline. You can also make summary of findings table.For registration of protocol you will need to use PROSPERO
I've used meta essentials (https://www.erim.eur.nl/research-support/meta-essentials/) before. It is very easy en efficient to use and produces the customary graphical results.
Thijs Beckers Hi, I have two data (1) total sample sized and (2) number of depression cases collected from 15 study. please suggest how to perform metaanalysis.
Thanks
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