Introducing RAPTOR: Revman Parsing Tool for Reviewers

Schmidt, Lena; Shokraneh, Farhad; Steinhausen, Kirsten; Adams, Clive E

Abstract

Background: Much effort is made to ensure Cochrane reviews are based on reliably extracted data. There is commitment to wide access to these data-for novel processing and/or reuse-but delivering this access is problematic.
Aim: To describe a proof-of-concept programme to extract, curate and structure data from Cochrane reviews.
Methods: One student of Applied Sciences (16 weeks full time), access to pre-publication review files and use of 'Eclipse' (Oxygen.3a version) to create an open access tool (RAPTOR) using the programming language Java.
Results: The final software batch processes hundreds of review in seconds, extracting all study data, automatically tidying and unifying presentation of data for return into the source review, reuse, or export for novel analyses.
Conclusions: This software, despite being limited, illustrates how the efforts of reviewers meticulously extracting study data can be improved, disseminated and reused with little additional effort.

Citation

Schmidt, L., Shokraneh, F., Steinhausen, K., & Adams, C. E. (2019). Introducing RAPTOR: Revman Parsing Tool for Reviewers. Systematic Reviews, 8(1), Article 151. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-1070-0

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 12, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Jun 26, 2019
• Publication Date: Jun 26, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jun 12, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 13, 2019
• Journal: Systematic Reviews
• Electronic ISSN: 2046-4053
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Article Number: 151
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-1070-0
• Keywords: Medicine (miscellaneous)
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2180683
• Publisher URL: https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13643-019-1070-0
• Additional Information: Received: 26 November 2018; Accepted: 12 June 2019; First Online: 26 June 2019; : Not applicable.; : Not applicable.; : The authors have no competing interests.
• Contract Date: Jun 12, 2019