AutoLit® User Guide
Examining Results in Synthesis
Administrative Tools
Support and FAQs
How to Perform Systematic Review
How to Perform a Meta-Analysis
Best Practices for Writing Your Manuscript
Additional Tips for Making a Nest
AutoLit® User Guide
Examining Results in Synthesis
Administrative Tools
Support and FAQs
How to Perform Systematic Review
How to Perform a Meta-Analysis
Best Practices for Writing Your Manuscript
Additional Tips for Making a Nest
If you'd like to export contents from your nest, you can use the Export page or Downloading from Inspector.
NOTE: Most Export functions have moved to Inspector.
Specifically, all functions except (1) the Custom Table Builder and (2) the CER Builder are now available under the “Download” button on Inspector.
Use this Export page for:
Use Download from Inspector for:
Custom tables enable you to choose which bibliographic data, tags, and data elements you would like to export. Use this option if:
Throughout the Custom Table build, the page presents a Preview; use this Preview to understand the structure that your exported table will have after you are finished!
Under Synthesis, click “Export”
It should already be opened to Custom Tables; if you navigate away, click the “Custom Tables” toggle to return to this page.
Click on the drop-down menu under “Table of” in order to choose whether you would like a table showing elements from the study as a whole, the various study arms in each study (placebo, intervention groups, etc.), or across all interventions.
Note that if you want to be able to export/download any extracted data––to create tables for a manuscript, for example––you must select Table of “Study Arm.”
Export a Table of Studies if you want one row per study, and only if you do not plan to export Data Elements. This is because the only Data Element that is scoped to the Study (rather than Study Arm) is total Study Size.
To choose a Table of Studies, select “Study” in the drop-down, and proceed to Filters and Adding Columns. You will be able to choose among Bibliographic data, Tag data, or Study Size. This will create a table where each row (red box) represents a single study and each header (red arrow) is either a bibliographic attribute or a tag:
Export a Table of Study Arms if you want each arm in each study to have its own row. This is the most similar table type to the Export All Data option below.
This is the most common export type for completing statistical analysis, since it is the only table type that can list the exact data elements from the underlying studies. It will create a table where each row is an arm (so a study, as shown by the boxes, may be split into multiple rows), and can have bibliographic, tag, or data element columns (arrows):
Export a Table of Interventions if you want to summarize all data at the level of Interventions. This is the most similar table type to the initial Summary view of Quantitative Synthesis.
This table type will have each Intervention in a row, and the only options for rows will be summaries of the Data Elements for each Intervention:
Selecting Table of Tags is a specialized option; instead of exporting underlying study information, this exports your tagging hierarchy with basic information about the use of each tag.
If you select this option, you will export a table where each row is a tag, and you will additionally be able to note:
If you want to export only the data from a subset of the studies in the nest, use the “Filter To” dropdown after selecting “Table of …”. This will work differently based on the Table Type you selected above:
Once you have selected the type of Table you are exporting and applied any relevant filters, you can customize what columns will be presented in your exported Table.
Depending on Table Type, you can select:
If you wish to change the order of columns presented, simply drag and drop the column pills:
The column order will change accordingly.
Nested Knowledge offers export of certain data required by the EU MDR 2.7.1 Rev 4 as part of the Clinical Evaluation Report submission process.
To access the CER Export page, select Export from the AutoLit menu, and then in the resulting page, toggle to “CER Builder.”
In the CER Builder, you have the options of exporting your Literature Search or your Screening activities.
To export a record of the Search Engines you used, alongside specific queries used, the number of total records returned, duplicates found and the number included and excluded from each search (as well as all studies that were added individually), select “Literature Search” from the drop-down.
Then, choose whether to export as a .docx or a .csv, and select “Download.” See below for an example. Searches are listed in chronological order from top to bottom by when they were first ran in your nest. The duplicate column refers to the number of duplicates found in the corresponding search, compared to the studies already in the nest and therefore returned by previous searches.
To export a record of all studies Screened in your nest, with full citation information and links to full texts, as well as the Screening status and (if excluded) the Exclusion Reason, select “Screening” from the drop-down.
Then, choose whether to export as a .docx or a .csv, and select “Download.” This will create a document that contains records such as:
These functions have been moved to Download from Inspector.