Stage 2 / Hands-on Guide / Evidence Lab
STAGE 2 · READ, EXTRACT, VERIFY
Article Evidence Lab
Practise finding and recording evidence in five published reviews. Use each PDF to trace selection counts, quality appraisal, extracted data and synthesis. Then apply the same evidence-tracking habits to your own included studies.
Keep the datasets separate. These five papers are completed reviews used as learning examples. Do not add them to the synthetic screening set or to your review’s PRISMA counts unless your own protocol explicitly includes review articles.
1Choose a paper and download its PDF
2Search the abstract, methods and tables
3Record findings and page/table evidence
4Open the self-check, then export notes
Move from the examples to your review
Use the synthetic records to practise independent screening and disagreement resolution. Use your own eligible full texts for quality assessment and data extraction. Record the actual decisions in your review system and reconcile each count with the decision log.
The self-check summarises information reported in each uploaded paper. When sections disagree, record the discrepancy and verify it against the article’s tables or flow diagram; do not silently choose a number.