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Introducing RAPTOR: Revman Parsing Tool for Reviewers

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

Authors

Lena Schmidt

Farhad Shokraneh

Kirsten Steinhausen

Clive E Adams



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), 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 Mar 28, 2024
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.

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