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Table 1 Range of users and use cases

From: Introducing RAPTOR: RevMan Parsing Tool for Reviewers

User

Suggested purposes

Editors

Gaining insights on bigger scale trial demographics in a discipline, such as frequent outcomes, years when included studies were published, etc.

Reviewers

Saving time with extracting and assessing trials because data can be reused.

Information specialists

Saving time with extracting and assessing trials because data can be reused.

Other researchers

Any researcher could use the xml file or any data spreadsheet that is made available. This includes people interested in machine learning, classifiers and neural networks approaches who need big amounts of labelled training data. PICO classifiers can be optimised using the characteristics and outcome data. Bias assessment data can be used for similar purposes.