Tip #6: Using Covidence to track and report snowballed references for the PRISMA 2020 flow diagram
Coauthored by Michelle R. Demetres, MLIS (mrd2006@med.cornell.edu) Update (October 18, 2022): This guidance is out of date, as bulk-tagging of large import sets in Covidence is currently not possible. Instead of importing references obtained by snowballing into the original Covidence project, we recommend creating a separate Covidence project for the new references and de-duplicating the already-screened references in EndNote prior to import. If you conduct snowballing (AKA citation searching or reference chasing) as part of your systematic review process, the PRISMA 2020 flow diagram may be causing you headaches. In the new flow diagram, snowballed results are reported in the right hand side of the diagram, "Identification of studies via other methods." Michelle Demetres of the Samuel J. Wood Library at Weill Cornell Medicine has contributed this tip on how to track snowballed references in Covidence. The team must be completely finished with their first round of full tex...