The research assistant¶

The research assistant runs a literature review from the first search to the summary table: it searches the databases, follows a paper's references and theirs, screens every paper against your PICOS protocol, groups the papers into topics, draws the PRISMA 2020 flow and summarises the papers you keep. Every search, paper and decision is kept with who made it and when, so the review can be audited and picked up by anyone in your organisation.

Nothing in it is guessed by a language model. Searches go to the databases you choose, screening applies the protocol's words to each title and abstract, and every summary cell is a sentence of the paper's own abstract. The same papers and the same protocol always give the same result.

Each page follows one real review, Exercise therapy for chronic low back pain. The numbers in each picture match the numbered steps under it.

This guide¶

Each step of a review has a page of its own, in the order a review takes them: