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Table 5 Reviewer workload for each of the complementary search approaches

From: LOCATE: a prospective evaluation of the value of Leveraging Ongoing Citation Acquisition Techniques for living Evidence syntheses

Search approach

Records screened by title and abstract

Duplicates screened

Records screened by full text

Screening time, hours (days)a

Automated Full Search

816

187

21

17.1 (2.1)

Similar Articles (PubMed)

452

3

11

9.4 (1.2)

Citing References (Scopus)

244

136

7

5.2 (0.7)

Total from complementary approaches

1512

326

39

31.7 (4.5)

Reference standard (full search update at 1 year)

505

0 (removed)

24

12.4 (1.6)

  1. aAssumed 0.5 min per title/abstract and 5 min per full text for each reviewer and an 8-h workday. This estimate appeared to align with the average time reported by reviewers over the 1-year of screening