Table 1 Characteristics of the included reviews
From: Decoding semi-automated title-abstract screening: findings from a convenience sample of reviews
Review name | Review type | Research question type | Intervention/exposure type | Included study designs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Activity and pregnancy | Systematic | Single: harms | Complex: occupational activity | Multiple: any study design |
Antipsychotics | Systematic | Multiple: effectiveness and harms | Simple: any Food and Drug Administration-approved first- or second-generation antipsychotic | Multiple: RCTs and nRCTs, controlled cohort, controlled before-after |
Brain injury | Systematic | Multiple: demographics, pathophysiology, predictive value, ideal follow-up time | Simple: brain imaging modalities | Multiple: RCTs, cohort, case-control |
Community gardening | Rapid | Single: effectiveness | Complex: community garden or allotment garden | Multiple: any study design |
Concussion | Systematic | Single: association | Simple: perceptions of concussions | Multiple: cross-sectional, cohort, mixed methods, qualitative |
Depression safety | Rapid | Single: harms | Complex: non-pharmacologic interventions for depression | Multiple: RCTs, systematic reviews |
Depression treatments | Rapid | Single: effectiveness | Complex: non-pharmacologic interventions for depression | Single: systematic reviews |
Diabetes | Systematic | Multiple: effectiveness, harms, factors contributing to effectiveness | Complex: behavioral programs for type 1 and type 2 diabetes | Multiple: RCTs, nRCTs, prospective cohort, controlled before-after |
Digital technologies for pain | Systematic | Single: effectiveness | Simple: any digital distractor | Multiple: observational, RCTs, nRCTs |
Experiences of bronchiolitis | Systematic | Single: exploratory | Simple: experiences and information needs | Multiple: observational, qualitative, mixed methods |
Experiences of UTIs | Systematic | Single: exploratory | Simple: experiences and information needs | Multiple: observational, qualitative, mixed methods |
Preterm delivery | Rapid | Multiple: effectiveness, diagnostic accuracy | Simple: predictive tests for preterm delivery | Multiple: systematic reviews, cohort |
Treatments for bronchiolitis | Systematic | Multiple: effectiveness and harms | Simple: any bronchodilator, any corticosteroid, hypertonic saline, oxygen therapy, antibiotics, heliox | Single: RCTs |
VBAC | Systematic | Single: effectiveness | Complex: adjunct clinical interventions targeting trial of labor after cesarean and vaginal birth after cesarean rates | Multiple: any comparative design (RCTs, nRCTs, observational) |
Visual acuity | Systematic | Multiple: effectiveness and harms | Simple: vision screening tests (alone or within multicomponent screening/assessment) | Single: RCTs |
Workplace stress | Rapid | Single: effectiveness | Complex: workplace interventions to reduce stress, absenteeism, and mental health problems | Single: systematic reviews |