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Table 2 Screening workload and proportion of records included by screening project, as performed by the human reviewers

From: Technology-assisted title and abstract screening for systematic reviews: a retrospective evaluation of the Abstrackr machine learning tool

Screening characteristics

Screening project (N (%))

Antipsychotics

Bronchiolitis

Child Health SRs

Diabetes

Records retrieved by the searches

12,763

5893

5243

47,141

 Accepted after title and abstract screeninga

808 (6.3)

520 (8.8)

3143 (59.9)

698 (1.5)

 Accepted after full-text screeningb

135 (1.1)

155 (2.6)

1598 (30.5)

205 (0.4)

  1. SR systematic review
  2. aBased on dual independent screening by two human reviewers
  3. bRecords included in the final report