You will use a different appraisal checklist for each study design. For help in deciding which Risk of Bias / Quality Assessment tool(s) to use, consult one of the following sites:
Once all reviewers have completed the full-text screening and resolved conflicts, and have also completed the Data Extraction, you are ready to move on to Quality Assessment. During the quality assessment phase, the authors appraise the methodological quality of each study selected for inclusion.
Go to the Quality Assessment Template.
On the Quality Assessment Template, you can either:
*Version 2 of the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool has been released so we recommend editing the Covidence template to reflect RoB-2.
Each study design will be appraised using a separate tool. For example, you may use Cochrane RoB-2 to appraise your included RCTs, and JBI Cohort Checklist to appraise the included cohort studies. That said, you can only create one Quality Assessment form. Therefore, if you have a mix of study designs (e.g. experimental and observational) then you could add multiple quality assessment tools to one form. To differentiate the domains of each tool, add the study design or name of the tool to the domain labels. Here is guidance on creating a template with multiple risk of bias tools.
For help in deciding which Risk of Bias / Quality Assessment tool(s) to use, consult one of the following sites:
If your systematic review includes study designs other than RCTs, you should use a quality assessment tool other than the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool. Select, "I want to start from scratch" to create and publish a custom Quality Assessment template.
For help in deciding which quality assessment tool(s) to use, see this list of quality assessment tools.