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Table 4 Semi-automation test with RobotAnalyst using a training set of dually reviewed randomly selected citations with labels from title and abstract screening

From: Comparison of a traditional systematic review approach with review-of-reviews and semi-automation as strategies to update the evidence

 

Traditional database search

Total citations: 3128

Title-abstract screening: 148 includes/2980 excludes

Full-text screening: 46 includes/3082 excludes

Training set

Labeled citations: 938 (30%)

Training set labels: TP (15), FP (32), TN (891)

Unlabeled citations assigned inclusion prediction by ML algorithm: 2190

Inclusion prediction: 0.3

Inclusion prediction: 0.4

Inclusion prediction: 0.5

Predicted includes

2168

1970

1363

Predicted excludes

22

220

827

Sensitivity

100%

93%

74%

Specificity

30%

36%

55%

Missed citations

0

3

12

Burden

99%

93%

74%

Time savings (min)

11

110

413.5

  1. FP false positive, ML machine learning, TP true positive, TN true positive