Hello,

My colleague has already performed screening of all 4848 articles on title and abstract. I now want to do the same (for cross comparison). I understand from watching the youtube video I need to change to comparison data entry (we haven't activated this already). I'm just slightly concerned that activating this at this point will delete all her hard work! Am I ok to click this button? Or should I use another method?

Thanks very much

Ellie

This question was answered by email.

The answer was to create a coding assignment. When you create a coding assignment the program will keep track of what items you have coded and not coded.

Best regards,

Jeff

Dear Hege,

There are buttons to "bulk complete" and "bulk uncomplete" items within EPPI Reviewer 4 in the right-hand pane of the display, under the "Review Statistics" tab.

You can mark items as incomplete per user per codeset, by codeset, or via advanced options covering all coding in a review.

You can also "bulk complete" items in the same way. 

This is touched on in the manual around page 56 and before (where you will also find information on Normal vs Comparison data entry i.e. a single user or multiple users working concurrently, and switching between the two modes).

Do let us know if you require any further information or assistance.

Kind regards,

Zak

EPPISupport@UCL.ac.uk

Hi,

If you can select those you wish to bulk complete or uncomplete, and then assign them a code to distinguish them from others, you can then use the same method as described previously to bulk complete / uncomplete the items via the assigned distinguishing code. (If they already all have a specific code denoting them, the code should appear in the Review Statistics tab, so you should be able carry out the bulk processing.)

In the example below, I have created a new codeset, with just one child-code for the moment, to denote those items I wish to bulk complete.

I select the items I want to bulk complete, right-click on the new child-code, and assign the itemms this new child-code (to denote them).

I can then set coding as incomplete or complete, as before, using the new codeset.

Note that you can use the advanced Search facility, and add various searches together using Boolean operators, to produce a list of those items you wish to bulk operate on.

Hope that helps, but do let us know if you need further information or examples.

Kind regards,

Zak