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Lindexer Software.

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Goodbye spreadsheets, hello Lindexer!

  • Modern design that makes you faster.
  • Real-time progress overviews with clear status update per workflow step and reporting.
  • Created to minimize the number of clicks.
  • For data extraction, we even support a dual monitor setup so you can easily use the full text of the publication and the data extraction table at the same time. Without switching and with comfortable text size and spacing.
  • Smart screening tools such as keyword highlighting and inclusion probability ordering.
  • Automatic free PDFs retrieval in the background, the others can be uploaded manually or in bulk.
  • Automatic deduplication.
  • Efficient data extraction with automatic parsing of text extracted from PDFs, in dual screen mode.
  • Data extraction tables created on the fly based on the study setup of the publication you are reading.
  • Unit conversion, custom calculations, and pivot tables updated as you advance.

Invite your team and finish your review faster.

Lindexer works project-based, so you can easily invite others to collaborate on your literature review without additional cost. To get started on the next stage earlier. Or have an expert opinion on whether a set of publications meet the eligibility criteria of your review. Or both.

  • Run your searches directly from Lindexer on PubMed and Google Scholar.
  • Import results from numerous other sources.
  • Integrated PDF reader.
  • Powerful reporting tools, based on a vertical data model.
  • Payments via secure Stripe integration.
  • (Customizable) IMDRF appraisal template available, or build your own.
  • A PRISMA 2020 compliant flowchart, forest plots, and configurable data and summary tables ready to integrate directly into your report.
  • Full audit trail – all activities are logged and traceable. Easily trace extracted data to source text.
  • Project versioning – repeat your searches for the next update.
  • Cloud-based SaaS solution, hosted on Google Cloud, secured by design.
  • Use or customize predefined templates to get your MDR-compliant literature review up and running in no time. Or create your own from scratch.
  • Templates are available for screening, appraisal, study summary and data extraction forms, but also for reasons for exclusion, keywords and tags. Use them as such, customize them or create your own.
  • Configure your screen layout to suit your way of working.

Experience Lindexer in a
hands-on demo.

Discover how Lindexer can streamline your literature review process.

Register for one of our demos  to explore our user-friendly, customizable platform designed to enhance your workflow from search to reporting.

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"Lindexer is easy to navigate and user friendly. The current functionality supports all steps of the systematic literature review process. Everyone involved in clinical evaluation of medical devices will benefit from this type of tool."

Dimiter Dimitrov Manager, Medical Affairs, Global Clinical Evaluation Group – Pharma Medical Devices
Evaluated Lindexer as beta tester

"Lindexer is nicely polished software product that is a perfect response to the EU MDR and the increasing importance of clinical evaluation reporting. The great advantage of Lindexer is the immediate connection to literature databases and the collaborative setup, where different team members can work together. It is an interesting tool for medtech companies, but also for CROs and even academic institutions."

Wim Laloo Clinical Affairs Professional

The Lindexer systematic literature review workflow.

Searches

Run a PubMed or Google Scholar search directly from Lindexer, or import results via a RIS file from most literature databases. Create a living review with the option to rerun online searches later.

Check out these short demo videos on PubMed search or file import. 

All search results are immediately deduplicated and duplicates are ready for your review, as demonstrated in this demo video. 

Screening

The initial screening of titles and abstracts in a systematic review is time-consuming due to the volume of publications. Lindexer drastically reduces this time by:

  • Keyword highlighting: Color-code PICO or custom keyword groups to quickly find relevant information.
  • One-click screening decisions: Use standard or custom exclusion reasons easily.

Lindexer prioritizes relevant publications based on your project's keywords, speeding up the review process and enabling your team to progress faster.

Watch our screening demo video here. 

Full Text Review

When publications reach the full-text review stage, Lindexer fetches free full texts automatically. Other texts can be uploaded manually or in bulk.

Our PDF viewer lets you navigate, search, zoom, and rotate pages to view large tables in landscape.

Complete eligibility data on your screening form and justify exclusions with custom reasons. Use the citation screening feature to add references to your review.

Watch this video for a quick overview. 

Appraisal

Critically appraise the quality of included publications using built-in system templates such as the IMDRF appraisal template from MDCE WG/N56FINAL:2019 or create your own custom form. 

Watch the appraisal demo video. 

Data Extraction

Enter the study setup, and Lindexer automatically creates a data extraction table based on your custom form. Copy text from the PDF into the input field for traceability, and Lindexer will parse and place it in the table columns.

View the publication's PDF and data extraction table side-by-side, utilizing your full screen space on dual or wide monitors.

Watch this demo video for a quick overview of Lindexer’s data extraction capabilities. 

Reporting

Are you also frustrated by systems that give you a data dump of everything you ever entered which takes you ages to process and analyze? 

Lindexer approaches analysis and reporting differently:  

  • Customizable reporting datasets for every step of the workflow. 
  • The possibility to enhance your reporting with calculated parameters. 
  • Easy to configure pivot table to analyze your data directly in Lindexer 

Also included: a PRISMA 2020 compliant flow chart, and the possibility to download the PDFs of all included studies with one click. 

How Lindexer works.

Experience Lindexer’s Literature Review Software through our series of hands-on demos, created to replicate the experience of using the software yourself.

Demo: Reporting

Demo: Reporting

This demo shows the simplicity of the preconfigured downloads and reporting datasets in Lindexer.

Demo: Citation Screening

Demo: Citation Screening

This demo showcases the Lindexer’s citation screening functionality to add references from included publications to your systematic…

Demo: Data Extraction

Demo: Data Extraction

Discover the advanced data extraction capabilities of the Lindexer platform.

FAQ.

Get quick answers to your questions about our systematic literature review software platform.

Lindexer is a web-based software platform for systematic literature reviews, specifically designed to support literature reviews for medical devices and in vitro diagnostics.

Yes, you can sign up for a 14-day free trial to try out Lindexer. No credit card information required.

No, you do not need to enter any payment information to start your free trial period.


Your free trial environment will become read-only after the free trial period, and will be unlocked upon providing payment information when you decide to continue with Lindexer as your preferred systematic literature review software

Your free trial will be available for 14 days. If needed, we can extend your free trial version to 30 days upon request.

You do not need to enter any payment information before you can start your free trial period.

In our free trial version, we have prepared 2 different workspaces for you:

  • Your own workspace: This is your active workspace where you can run an actual project. The workspace has your name, and includes one project that also has your name.
  • Boilerplate workspace: this workspace contains 2 demo projects that will help you explore the application. One project will be clean so you can start exploring from scratch. The other has preset searches and articles at every stage of the project, so you can quickly try out and familiarize yourself with all steps of the systematic literature review workflow.
    Both are demo projects, so you cannot run an actual study on this workspace or projects. While they have all the review functionality available, you cannot run reporting for these projects.

 

During your free trial period, our support team is available to help you to thoroughly explore the Lindexer application.

  • We designed Lindexer with user-friendliness at its core, so you can fully concentrate on the content of your review.
  • If you are familiar with the basic steps of the systematic literature review process, Lindexer is super easy to work with: the workflow bar shows you the steps of the systematic literature review workflow.
  • Every user has access to a demo project with some data at every step so you can dive right in.

Lindexer has been developed using data security best practices and is hosted on secure-by-design Google Cloud infrastructure with end-to-end data encryption.

Certainly. We know systematic literature reviews are time consuming and often require team effort, all our pricing plans are project-based, so you can work on your review with as many users as needed. In Lindexer, your whole team is just an invite away.

With an internet connection, a browser and an email address, you are ready to sign up for a free trial and start using Lindexer. No downloads or installations. Our cloud environment does the heavy lifting for you, so a normal computer will do.

Absolutely! Lindexer works project-based and you can easily invite others to collaborate on literature reviews without additional cost.

Key features.

Lindexer features table of literature review software

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