Populate study data

Ways of populating study data

Once you have set up the review criteria, you can populate study data for the included studies. As the analyses are defined at the protocol stage, before adding any study data, the forest plots will automatically update once you have added the study data. You can do so in three ways: 

  1. Importing data in CSV format, preparing your files for import using Covidence or by completing the data extraction templates.
  2. Manually entering the study data
  3. Importing data in JSON format

Further guidance on reusing study data between reviews, and choosing between CSV and JSON formats, is available here.

If you want to import references for the included studies, you must upload the RIS file before importing the study data, otherwise studies will be duplicated in RevMan.

See further instructions for importing references for studies into RevMan. 

Types of study data

Study data that can be populated for the included studies are: 

  • Study information
    • Study characteristics
    • Covariate names and categories
  • Study arms
    • Arms captured for a study and which intervention they map to
  • Study results
    • Study-specific outcomes
    • Interventions
    • Result data
  • Risk of bias assessments
    • Judgment and support for judgement for each risk of bias domain