PICO Portal’s literature review platform offers state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to streamline systematic reviews, scoping reviews, evidence mapping, and other types of evidence syntheses. Its advanced technology and easy-to-use interface enable researchers to perform rapid evidence generation while upholding strict industry standards.

PICO Portal optimizes the literature review experience by making the research process more efficient, precise, and insightful. The end-to-end solution supports citation screening, full-text review, risk of bias/quality assessment, and data extraction, with customers reaping an average 50% return on investment compared with traditional literature review tools (reference).

A beacon of innovation amidst existing evidence synthesis technology, which offer limited automation and customizability, PICO Portal excels in automation, project management, and usability, bridging a significant gap in the evidence synthesis domain.

A selection of key features include:

Citation upload with over 20 supported file formats
Automated citation deduplication
Custom keywords, tags, exclusion reasons, and extraction fields
Forward and backward snowball reports to expand citation search
A suite of AI features including:

Citation sorting by relevance during title/abstract screening
PICOS and custom keyword highlights during title/abstract screening o Automated PDF uploading for full-text review
PICO Portal Ask AI (large language model processing engine) for individual queries related to projects and articles
AI-assisted Risk of Bias and Data Extraction with supporting full-text PDF highlights for streamlined verification
PRISMA 2020 summary generation

Detailed dashboards to monitor project progress and user analytics
Dedicated product support including training and technical assistance

PICO Portal is designed to reduce the time spent by research teams on mundane tasks and reallocate their resources to the areas of the review that require cognitive skills and domain expertise.

PICO Portal upholds a responsible, transparent, and measured approach in its implementation of AI.

Responsible AI development considerations include:

Rolling out features that enhance the research outcomes without negative impact
Ensuring users remain in control of all data input and can verify AI accuracy

by triangulating responses
Identifying tasks where tolerance for expected AI errors is acceptable

Since its inception in 2021, PICO Portal supports leading research organizations in over 70 countries including government institutions, non-profit, academic, and private companies. PICO Portal has been leveraged to conduct thousands of systematic reviews, scoping and rapid reviews, and evidence mapping, facilitating the synthesis of over 5 million citations.

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