HelpForum

Forum (Archive)

This forum is kept largely for historic reasons and for our latest changes announcements. (It was focused around the older EPPI Reviewer version 4.)

There are many informative posts and answers to common questions, but you may find our videos and other resources more informative if you are an EPPI Reviewer WEB user.

Click here to search the forum. If you do have questions or require support, please email eppisupport@ucl.ac.uk.

<< Back to main Help page

HomeHomeUsing EPPI-Revi...Using EPPI-Revi...Questions about...Questions about...Allocations Groups/Not taking in all documentsAllocations Groups/Not taking in all documents
Previous
 
Next
New Post
26/04/2017 13:51
 

In our review, for Title Abstract Screening (and we are also coding each paper by Technology) I set up a trial based on the results of a search within EPPI reviewer which garnered 127 results and all 3 reviewers were assigned to collaboratively code the Trial Group papers, 2 of us are finished and 1 has a few remaining to get through. Nevertheless, I have attempted to divide up the remainder of the overall documents and set up a Remaining Allocations group and divided it into single coding (I hope?) and allocated between the 3 of us 60% (called RAK-Group) 20% (Ann’s group) 20% (Mairead’s Group). I have started coding away on the 60% allocated to me (RAK-Group) but when I allocated the 2 lots of 20% to my colleagues I noticed that the numbers don’t add up. There are 1490 items all together but the numbers only add up to 1470 documents, so there seems to be 20 unaccounted for. How can I rectify this?

 
New Post
27/04/2017 15:45
 

Hi Rachel,

It seems that you have some overlaps in your second set of allocation codes. (We are not sure how this has occurred, but you could have inadvertently selected both included and excluded items for one group, or some such. We find people tend to use the I and E flags differently, according to their own personal preferences and working methods.)

If you look in the Search tab of your review 11970, you will see we have carried out some searches (numbers 141 to 153), and found there are definitely some items that have been allocated to more than one person. (It appears 170 items have been coded with Ann's Group and RAK-Group, and 165 items coded with Ann's Group and Mairead's Group.)

The total number of items coded in all three groups is 1470 (adding 894 + 288 + 288), whereas the total number of unique items coded in any one of the three groups is 1135. (1135 plus the duplicates 170 + 165 = 1470.)

The twenty items that have gone astray in your numbers may just have arisen as you are only looking at certain included items or some such.

(One way to reallocate and check again would be to create a new code, select the items which have been already coded by each group (i.e. are started) - by clicking the Collaborate tab, clicking on the relevant number, selecting all the items that are listed, and right-clicking on the new code assigning it to all items. Then create another second code and randomly assign items without the first new code to one of 5 child codes below the second new code, using the inbuilt function to assign codes randomly... You could then assign items with one of the five child codes to Ann's group, items with another of the five child codes to Mairead's group, and finally items with any of the remaining three child codes to RAK's group, giving a 20%, 20%, 60% split.)

Let us know if you require any further assistance addressing this issue. (We did not want to change coding or anything else on your review whilst it was being accessed.)

Cheers,

Zak

 
New Post
27/04/2017 16:14
 

Thanks so much Zak, I have done what y0u suggested. Can I delete Ann and Mairead's previous allocations now?

 
New Post
27/04/2017 18:17
 

No problem, Rachel. It should be OK to delete the old codes if you are sure you have everything set up correctly now, and no items are "missing" or mis-coded. If you are not using the old codes in reports or searches, they will not affect your review.

However, it may be worth keeping them at least for a little while, just in case. (The software can show coding history, who did what, what items have what codes assigned, etc.) If you find things don't tally or totals don't match, you will still have the old codes to check back on...

Once you are confident everything is OK, then you may want to delete the old codes, just to keep everything looking clear and to avoid any confusion for your reviewers.

Cheers,

Zak

 
Previous
 
Next
HomeHomeUsing EPPI-Revi...Using EPPI-Revi...Questions about...Questions about...Allocations Groups/Not taking in all documentsAllocations Groups/Not taking in all documents


Copyright 2021 by EPPI-Centre :: Privacy Statement :: Terms Of Use :: Site Map :: Login
Home::Help::EPPI-Mapper::RIS Export::About::Account Manager