GRADE beside the evidence, not in a separate app
Rate the certainty of evidence for each outcome using the GRADE approach: randomized trials start at high certainty, observational studies at low, and your judgements on the standard criteria move the rating from there. Because the table lives in the same project as your risk of bias assessments and meta-analysis, the evidence behind each judgement is one click away, not in another window.
What the tool covers
- Per-outcome ratings on the four GRADE levels: high, moderate, low, very low
- The five downgrade criteria: risk of bias, inconsistency, indirectness, imprecision, publication bias
- The three upgrade criteria for observational evidence, including large effect and dose-response
- CSV export of the evidence table, ready to format into a summary of findings
- Ratings that flow into the project report and manuscript draft
Why the placement matters
An imprecision judgement needs the pooled confidence interval in front of you. An inconsistency judgement needs the I² and the forest plot. When GRADE lives in a separate tool, you alt-tab and retype; when it lives beside the analysis, you look and rate.
An honest note
GRADEpro GDT is the established tool for guideline panels and Cochrane-style summary of findings tables, and for that work it is the reference implementation. Covexe suits the systematic review where GRADE is one step among many and you want it next to the numbers it depends on, free.