Error rates of human reviewers during abstract screening in systematic reviews.

BACKGROUND:Automated approaches to improve the efficiency of systematic reviews are greatly needed. When testing any of these approaches, the criterion standard of comparison (gold standard) is usually human reviewers. Yet, human reviewers make errors in inclusion and exclusion of references. OBJECT...

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Main Authors: Zhen Wang, Tarek Nayfeh, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Peter O'Blenis, Mohammad Hassan Murad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227742