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What Coventra includes, what it does not do, and where human review responsibility starts and ends.
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Overview
What Coventra includes, what it does not do, and where human review responsibility starts and ends.
7 min readMethods, transparency, and reviewer trustWhat Coventra records, exposes, and exports so teams can review how an analysis was produced without relying on a black-box result.
Project Setup
Create a project, choose sensible settings, invite the right people, and prepare your workspace before records arrive.
14 min readProject and study setup: complete breakdownDetailed guidance on workspace entry, project creation, metadata, analysis configuration, outcomes, treatments, DOI lookup, file imports, and PDFs.
Studies
Screening
Run two-phase screening, understand blind mode, use reviewer assignments, and know what happens when decisions disagree.
8 min readResolve screening conflicts and discuss decisionsUse phase-aware conflict queues, threaded decision comments, and durable resolution without overwriting original reviewer judgments.
18 min readScreening features: complete breakdownEverything in the Screening workspace: imports, deduplication, search logs, settings, decisions, assignments, conflicts, reliability, active learning, and PRISMA reporting.
Extraction
Upload PDFs, use the evidence viewer, fill the extraction grid, and preserve source-backed provenance for manuscript tables and analysis.
16 min readExtraction features: complete breakdownA detailed guide to PDFs, evidence viewing, extraction rows, provenance, harmonization, blind extraction, MCP suggestions, data freeze, and gated AI suggestions.
Analysis
Choose the right analysis family, inspect model settings, understand premium gates, and prepare interpretable outputs.
21 min readAnalysis features: complete breakdownDetailed guidance for pairwise analysis, saved runs, diagnostics, advanced analyses, NMA, Bayesian methods, GRADE, generated text, and interpretation limits.
Risk And Quality
Use generic quality templates, assessment rows, comments, conflicts, and plots without relying on bundled proprietary instruments.
13 min readRisk of bias and quality features: complete breakdownA guide to quality templates, assessment records, comments, conflicts, validation, plots, and how to bring in external assessment instruments safely.
Collaboration
Invite the right access level, assign project tasks, understand categorized work queues, and keep team communication auditable.
13 min readTeam collaboration, roles, invitations, and tasksEvery collaboration concept explained: full-project access, screening-only members, premium passes, categorized tasks, notifications, comments, and what each user should expect.
Exports
Know which exports to use for manuscripts, screening reports, extraction data, analysis reproducibility, and long-term audit trails.
16 min readExport formats: complete breakdownEvery available export explained, including what it contains, when to use it, and which formats require premium project access.
Security
AI Copilot
How Coventra MCP connects an agent to a review project with project-scoped consent, proposal-only writes, PDF-grounded evidence, and human checkpoints.
9 min readMCP extraction benchmark with Claude Sonnet 4.6Results from Coventra's PDF-grounded MCP extraction benchmark: protocol-guided outcome targeting, source-backed proposals, repeat-run protection, and human review checkpoints.
12 min readMCP benchmark with Claude Sonnet 4.6Methods and workflow results from the first Coventra MCP benchmark run: title/abstract screening, full-text progression, and PDF-grounded extraction proposals in a real oncology SRMA project.
Methodologies
A transparent explanation of why meta-analysis software can run successfully while still producing statistically wrong results, and how review teams should check methods before publication.
16 min readStatistical validation evidence and reproducibility recordHow Coventra records numerical validation evidence by comparing app outputs with direct R package results, what the current validation library covers, and what remains a human methodological responsibility.
18 min readMethodology defaults, effect measures, and changeable assumptionsA transparent map of Coventra's default statistical assumptions, which analysis choices users can change, and which assumptions must be verified before journal use.
28 min readPairwise model, effect-size formulas, and heterogeneityFormula-level documentation for pairwise synthesis, including binary, continuous, generic, and time-to-event data, sparse-data handling, heterogeneity, defaults, and changeable model settings.
14 min readForest plot methodology and display assumptionsHow Coventra renders study effects, pooled estimates, weights, confidence intervals, prediction intervals, and journal-style display options.
26 min readSensitivity diagnostics, funnel plots, and small-study effectsFormula-level and interpretation guidance for leave-one-out checks, influence diagnostics, cumulative meta-analysis, funnel plots, Egger, Begg, Peters-style tests, contour guides, and trim-and-fill sensitivity output.
17 min readSubgroup analysis, meta-regression, and moderator interpretationHow subgroup fields and study-level covariates connect to moderator analyses, including formulas, defaults, limitations, and reporting requirements.
20 min readBayesian pairwise meta-analysis, priors, and posterior diagnosticsCoventra's Bayesian pairwise workflow, including exact bayesmeta integration, default priors, changeable prior settings, prior sensitivity, and diagnostic limits.
24 min readNetwork meta-analysis model and relative estimatesDetailed methodology for contrast-based and binary-arm network meta-analysis, including consistency equations, defaults, changeable settings, and transitivity checks.
10 min readNetwork graph methodologyHow network plots represent treatments, direct comparisons, multi-arm evidence, and connectivity without implying effect magnitude or certainty.
16 min readP-score rankings, SUCRA-like summaries, and rankogramsHow Coventra produces and interprets treatment rankings, including ranking direction, uncertainty, P-scores, and rankogram limitations.
16 min readNMA forest plots, league tables, and heatmapsMethodology for presenting network estimates versus a reference treatment and all pairwise network comparisons in numeric and heatmap form.
12 min readComparison-adjusted funnel plots for NMAHow comparison-adjusted funnel plots are generated for network meta-analysis and why sparse or heterogeneous networks limit interpretation.
18 min readNetsplit, netheat, contribution, and confidence diagnosticsNetwork inconsistency and confidence-support outputs, including direct-vs-indirect comparison, loop requirements, contribution matrices, and certainty caveats.
24 min readSingle-arm proportion, rate, and mean meta-analysisDetailed methodology for pooled single-arm proportions, incidence rates, and raw means, including formulas, GLMM defaults, person-time units, heterogeneity, funnel limitations, and reporting requirements.
18 min readGeneric inverse-variance, hazard ratios, and adjusted estimatesHow reported estimates and standard errors are entered, transformed, pooled, and checked when arm-level data are insufficient or inappropriate.
24 min readCluster, crossover, paired, matched, and IPD-derived analysesDesign-specific formulas and extraction requirements for studies that should not be treated as ordinary independent-arm trials.