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Table 3 Loss of sensitivity when permitting single reviewer exclusion, based on number of unique criteria

From: Successful incorporation of single reviewer assessments during systematic review screening: development and validation of sensitivity and work-saved of an algorithm that considers exclusion criteria and count

Exclusion a

Count of SRs

Count of Papers b

Loss of Sensitivity

Mean [95%CI]

≥ 1

10

8021

8.4% [5.9–12.0%]

≥ 2

8

3674

1.2% [0.5–3.1%]

≥ 3

8

1449

0.5% [0.1–2.0%]

≥ 4

6

296

0.0% [0.0–1.2%]

  1. aAnalysis is based on the systematic reviews in the derivation set only
  2. bNumber of papers where the criterion was selected