What's new

New functionality.

Server-side Stats Agent, extraction QC, and review adjudication

Statistical analysis

  • Faster, more reliable meta-analysis execution — results appear in seconds with no cold-start delays.
  • Sensitivity analysis tool: leave-one-out, comparison of 8 alternative τ² estimators (REML, DL, HS, SJ, PM, HE, ML, EB), and Knapp-Hartung adjustment.
  • Publication bias tool: Egger’s regression, Begg’s rank correlation, Duval & Tweedie trim-and-fill, and funnel plot generation with automatic power caveats for k < 10.
  • Forest plot images are now saved and available directly in evidence previews.

Extraction quality control

  • Automated QC triggers inspect every extraction for five common issues: missing effect sizes, impossible values, implausible magnitudes, subgroup-vs-overall confusion, and HR-in-OR leakage.
  • When QC detects an issue the system re-runs extraction with targeted repair hints before surfacing the result for review.
  • Improved study design classification for more accurate arm identification.

Review and adjudication

  • Per-outcome Accept / Reject decisions replace batch approval — reviewers make granular choices about which extracted outcomes to keep.
  • Full QC history visible in the review panel: which triggers fired, retry status, and score changes.
  • Agent-assisted adjudication evaluates conflicting extraction candidates and recommends the most likely correct value with a confidence score.
  • Reviewers can provide rerun instructions to guide a new extraction attempt for specific outcomes.

Navigation and bug fixes

  • Fixed broken Analysis tab and sidebar links.
  • Fixed a login crash when entering an unrecognised email address.

Batch extraction pipeline, supplement support, and Search Agent

Batch extraction

  • Auto-Extract All Outcomes processes every eligible study in parallel instead of one at a time.
  • Confidence badges (green / amber / red) on each extracted value give instant reliability signals.
  • Quality dashboard scores each extraction on evidence adequacy, arm alignment, schema completeness, and provenance quality.
  • Review Queue collects low-confidence or conflicting extractions for human validation with approve / reject / override actions.
  • Conflict side-by-side view lets you compare and accept competing values with one click.

Companion documents and supplements

  • Supplementary materials (PDF appendices, Excel tables, Word documents) are automatically fetched from PMC, publisher sites, and ClinicalTrials.gov.
  • Non-PDF supplements (DOCX, XLSX) are automatically read and included in the extraction process.
  • The extraction pipeline now discovers companion publications (secondary analyses, follow-ups) and includes them for a complete trial narrative.
  • Supplement sub-rows appear in the Full Text tab with descriptive labels.

Full text improvements

  • Bulk Upload lets you drag-and-drop up to 50 PDFs at once with automatic study matching by PMID, author-year, or fuzzy title.
  • A fallback search automatically checks PMC, CrossRef, and publisher sites when the primary PDF source is unavailable.
  • Upload PDFs button added to the Full Text toolbar for quick manual supplement uploads.

Search Agent

  • AI-powered Search Agent builds and executes optimized PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov queries from your PICO/PEO criteria.
  • Real-time precision feedback screens a sample of scouted results against your PICO criteria before committing, preventing low-quality queries.
  • Newly discovered trials are automatically screened through your PICO/PEO criteria before entering the pipeline.

Extraction math engine

  • Arm swap detection identifies when treatment and control arms may have been mislabelled.
  • Cross-outcome hazard ratio deduplication prevents the same HR from being counted for multiple endpoints.
  • Events derivation from percentages when only percentage-based reporting is available.