Automated screening of research studies for systematic reviews using study characteristics

Abstract Background Screening candidate studies for inclusion in a systematic review is time-consuming when conducted manually. Automation tools could reduce the human effort devoted to screening. Existing methods use supervised machine learning which train classifiers to identify relevant words in...

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Main Authors: Guy Tsafnat, Paul Glasziou, George Karystianis, Enrico Coiera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-04-01
Series:Systematic Reviews
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13643-018-0724-7