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07/06/2011 20:57
 

Hi,

I am creating comparision (about 122 articles) among 2 reviewers of our group and it is showing an error message. I would like to see their agreements and disagreements so that agreements can be completed and the disagreements can be resolved mannualy. 

Instead of creating the comparision when I click on the "view" , it shows an error message.

Monali

 
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08/06/2011 09:35
 

Hi,

I've tried the 'view' button on your comparison and it seems to be working ok. Please can you try again and let us know what the error message was? (Was it taking a long time before finally giving up and displaying the error maybe?)

Thanks, James.

 
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08/06/2011 22:05
 

 Hi, How did u get the comparision when you clicked the view button? I am trying to compare Alex and Francie, they screened group 5 articles. But, when I select Alex and Francie as reviewers and select code set as "Screen by Title and Abstract" and set Attribute to "Group 5". When I click on view it gives me an error meassage : DataPortal.Update failed..........:Timeout Expired............."!

Pleas help.

Monali

 
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08/06/2011 22:07
 

 In Group 5 there are only 123 articles so it not like there are 1000s of articles we are comparing. In the manual, it shows the comparision of 133 articles!

Your quick reply is appreciated.

Monali

 
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09/06/2011 11:21
 

Hello Monali,

I just had a look at your comparisons and ran a 'Quick comparison report'. I didn't get the error message when I ran it but what you describe sounds like it might be a timing out issue. The number of items in your comparison (123) is not very many so that shouldn't be the cause of it. We are still looking into the issue to see if there is anything else that might have caused the error message.

I noticed that in your screening tool you have each inclusion/exclusion criteria set up as a separate question with a number of possible answers. There isn't a problem with doing it this way but it does mean that when you run a 'Quick report' that you will need to run a separate one for each question as the ‘Quick report’ only looks down one level of hierarchy. When you run the quick report, for the 'Select this code (set)' option you will need to select one of the questions in your coding tool.

If you wanted the 'Quick report' to run against all of the criteria in your screening tool you would need to have all of the criteria at the same level of hierarchy. This would require setting up your screening tool as a number of exclusion or inclusion codes.

For example, one of your criteria questions are 'Was the study done in North America or Europe or Australia or Japan or Korea'. Under that question you have possible responses of 'Yes', 'No' and 'Unclear'. If you were to set up that criteria as 'Exclude if not North America or Europe or ...' this would be one of the screeing codes and not the codes beneath it. If each of your criteria were set up this way you could then run a 'Quick report' that would cover all of your criteria in one report.

The program is flexible enough to work either way and the user is free to set up their codes as they please. I'm just suggesting this method as a way to have all screening codes in the same 'quick report'

Best regards,

Jeff

 

 
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