the PICOtron

To update to latest version

Run git pull from the command line

Clinical answers from systematic reviews

As described in this presentation

The PICOtron produces summaries of systematic reviews. Specifically, files from RevMan 5 are batch processed to HTML files.

To produce summaries, the PICOtron does the following:

• retrieves intervention names from free text in Cochrane Reviews
• calculates estimates of the absolute effects of interventions (using individual trial data in the review)
• produces standardised, plain language, summaries of the effects of each intervention on key outcomes

This software is used by the Cochrane Collaboration, and forms the basis of Cochrane Clinical Answers,

contact: mail@ijmarshall.com

Instructions

1. Save the Revman input to the input/ folder
2. Export the topic map excel file to CSV format, also in the input/ folder, saving under the name topics.csv
3. From the command line, run python cca.py
4. Wait for the timer to finish, then the output files will be in the output/ directory
5. If any files are not possible to process, an error will be displayed, and a log text file saved in the output/ directory

To 'commit' changes

1. Type git add followed by the file you have edited
2. Type git commit -m "some description of change"
3. Type git push