Using built-in functions of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to help the selection process in systematic reviews of randomised trials

Selin Nur; Clive E Adams; David F Brailsford

doi:10.1186/s13643-016-0207-7

Using built-in functions of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to help the selection process in systematic reviews of randomised trials

Syst Rev. 2016 Feb 18:5:33. doi: 10.1186/s13643-016-0207-7.

Authors

Selin Nur¹, Clive E Adams², David F Brailsford³

Affiliations

¹ Information Systems in Healthcare Management, Department of Informatics, Ulm University of Applied Sciences/Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, Ulm, Germany. Nur-Selin@web.de.
² Cochrane Schizophrenia Group, Institute of Mental Health,, University of Nottingham, Triumph Road, Nottingham, NG7 2TU, UK. clive.adams@nottingham.ac.uk.
³ School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2TU, UK. David.Brailsford@nottingham.ac.uk.

Abstract

This letter describes a simple way of using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to help select and auto-extract data from Portable Document Format (PDFs) of randomised trials in order to assist swift early selection of trials for a systematic review.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Data Mining / methods*
Humans
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic*
Review Literature as Topic*
Software*