VADRR Documentation
VADRR (Systematic Review Data Repository And Review Repository) is a collaborative web platform for conducting and publishing systematic literature reviews. It helps research teams manage the full review lifecycle — from importing citations to publishing structured, interoperable data.
What VADRR Does
A systematic review follows a rigorous, structured process. VADRR supports each step:
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| Import citations | Pull references from PubMed, RIS files, CSV, or Endnote |
| Screen citations | Include or exclude studies at the abstract and full-text stage |
| Extract data | Fill in structured forms capturing study characteristics, outcomes, and results |
| Consolidate | Resolve conflicts between reviewers into a single canonical record |
| Publish | Submit your review for admin approval and share it in the public repository |
Who Uses VADRR
- Researchers and systematic reviewers conducting evidence synthesis projects
- Clinical guideline developers who need structured evidence tables
- Librarians managing literature searches and citation imports
- Policy makers and educators accessing published review data
Where to Start
Introduction
VADRR (Systematic Review Data Repository And Review Repository) is a collaborative web platform for conducting and publishing systematic literature reviews. It helps research teams manage the full review lifecycle — from importing citations to publishing structured, interoperable data.
Getting Started
3 items
Projects
4 items
Citations
3 items
Screening
7 items
Data Extraction
5 items
Consolidation
2 items
Results & Comparisons
2 items
SR360 Metadata
5 items
PRISMA Diagrams
1 item
Publishing
3 items
Collaboration
1 item
Import & Export
4 items
API Reference
4 items
Administration
1 item
New to VADRR?
Start with Getting Started → Create an Account and follow the guide through your first project.
Key Concepts
Before diving in, a few terms that come up throughout the docs:
- Project — The top-level container for a systematic review. Everything (citations, screening sessions, extraction forms) lives inside a project.
- Extraction — A single reviewer's data-entry task for one study. Extractions are assigned to reviewers and progress through a status workflow (Awaiting Work → In Progress → Awaiting Review → Approved).
- Consolidation — The process of merging answers from multiple reviewers into one agreed-upon record.
- SR360 — Structured metadata that captures the full PICODTS framework, key questions, and evidence table for a review. Publishable independently from raw extraction data.
- FHIR — HL7 FHIR R4 is the interoperability standard VADRR uses for exporting and importing review data.