Living Reviews user guide

Step 1: Conduct your search using the advanced search interface within the PHSM Bibliographic Library.

Step 2: Choose ‘Start a Living review’ to connect your search results with the SK platform.

Step 3: Sign up/log in

A message will appear, prompting you to send the search results to the Sustainable Knowledge Platform. After clicking the 'Send to SK-Platform' button, you will be redirected to the Sustainable Knowledge Platform home page, where you will need to log in or sign up.

Logging in is necessary to keep your work secure and to allow you to track the progress of your reviews.

You must sign up on the SK platform. If you are already registered on the SK platform or the Epistemonikos Database, you can log in with the same username and password. Logging in using a Google account is also available.

Step 4: Conducting your living evidence review

Once inside the platform you will be automatically directed to your personal folder inside the PHSM Knowledge Hub project. You can create a new project or start working on your review. You can also organize your projects and reviews.

Step 5: Select the timeframe for your evidence review. Even though the platform is particularly suited for a 'living approach', it is also possible to define other alternatives.

Step 6: Setup your methods and the characteristics of your report.

You can select to review the articles in duplicate or by multiple users, and the method to resolve discrepancies if these options are selected. Also, you can include a PRISMA flow diagram to summarize the selection process, and a table to describe the reasons for exclusion of articles.

Step 7: Screening (include/exclude articles)

The SK platform has a screening tool incorporated. In case you want to manually review the potentially eligible articles.

The potentially eligible references retrieved from the WHO PHSM BL will appear here automatically, in real-time, unless the living mode is disabled in the setup section.

Step 8: Write a report

In the writing section, you can generate an automated report of the process, which includes a written summary and a PRISMA flow diagram to summarize the selection process, and tables of the selected articles and excluded articles with reasons.

This report can be manually edited if necessary.

When ready, you can mark your report as a completed version. New articles detected in the future will not modify this version.

You can share this report using a link or export a pdf version.