Evidence reviews (including systematic reviews and maps) should be described in a high degree of methodological detail. An integral part of the methodological description of a review is a flow driagram (e.g. the famous PRISMA flow diagram).
This package produces an interactive flow diagram using a .Rhtml document to output an interactive .html file that can be added as a static image to a review report or embedded within a project website as an interactive visualisation of the review process.
When interactive, the user can click on each box and be directed to another website or file online (e.g. a detailed description of the screeeing methods, or a list of excluded full texts), with a mouseover tool tip that describes the information linked to in more detail.
The file choices are:
-
Systematic reviews (file names beginning with 'SR...')
-
Systematic maps (file names beginning with 'SM...')
-
Title and abstract screening conducted together (file names containing 'TAcombined')
-
Title and absrtact screening conducted separately (file names containing 'TAseparate')
-
Files requiring the user to enter the numbers of records in a code chunk at the start of the file before 'knitting' to produce an HTML output
-
Files that read in a CSV file containing the relevant data for the flow diagram (the corresponding 'mapdata...csv' file)
There is a set of the files dedicated to systematic maps ('SM...Rhtml') and a set of the files dedicated to systematic reviews ('SR...Rhtml').