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06/01/2011 12:00
 
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Hi

This from someone who has never used EPPI Reviewer for from scratch coding before, so apologies for very basic questions:

I set up a practice review and have loaded up documents from a PubMed search

I set up a simple code set (Practice screening) following the guidance on page 2 of the user manual and added child codes e.g. exclude on date or exclude on date. I then coded 50 documents to try this out ticking one or more exclusion box for each document. The stats box shows I have coded 45 documents but I cannot display excluded documents or frequencies for inclusion/exclusion using the buttons on the documents page, this all comes back as 0. The coding profiles show the document coding as complete. I have read the later sections of the manual and can't see what I am missing here?

David

 

 
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06/01/2011 13:26
 

Hello David,

There are a few ways you can display or query what you have coded.

The quickest way is to right click on your coding set and select 'Display item frequencies (children)'. This will display the codes in the codeset and the number of items assigned to each code. You can also run the similar operation in the Frequencies tab.

You can also query the codes in the search tab. by selecting the individual codes and running a search on them.

If you would like the system to keep track of what you have coded or not coded, you can allocate items to yourself in the collaborate tab. The system will keep track of the allocated items letting you know what you have coded and what items still need coding. This could be done on all of the items or a subset of the items depending on what you require.

Best regards,

Jeff

 

 

 
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06/01/2011 14:04
 

Thanks for the quick reply Jeff

I will try both of these options first thing tomorrow and get back to you.

David

 
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07/01/2011 10:00
 

Hi Jeff

Thanks for the advice yesterday. Both options 1 and 3 work exactly as you indicated and I am happy to proceed in that way.

I could not get the second option to work in that what appears in the search screen is the parent code i.e. practice screening and I cannot seem to expand this to the individual codes to search them in this tab. If I right click on the parent code then the word 'Silverlight' appears. 

I was going to ask about this too. When I used EPPI 3 to code a document as part of the Online EPPI Research Synthesis Course I recall being able to highlight and copy text from an abstract to drop this into a descriptor box in order  to respond to a data extraction question about sample size or data collection methods  for example. Now I can highlight text for copying and pasting (e.g. from an abstract)  but when I right click in the citation details tab of the document area I just get the word Silverlight?

Can you comment on or explain this?

Thanks

David

 
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07/01/2011 10:39
 

Hello David

If you are running a search and you wish to select an individual code for the search you need to expand the codeset (in the search window). In the second dropdown menu where the code sets are listed you will need to click on the littel arrow next to the codeset. This will expand the codeset.

If you wish to run the search on the codeset (rather than an individual code) you could select 'that have at least one code from this set' and then select the codeset rather than an individual code from the codeset.

You can copy and paste text in EPPI-Reviewer 4. Rather than right clicking to get the copy, cut and paste options you will need to use the keyboard shortcuts for those operations (crtl-c, ctrl-x and ctrl-v). The silverlight browser plugin, that the application runs in, has issues with the right click operations so keyboard shortcuts are required for now.

Best regards,

Jeff

 
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07/01/2011 11:56
 

Hi Jeff

Thanks for the clear summary and explanation re Silverlight, much appreciated.

David

 
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