SynthesisJournal of general internal medicine2014
Crowdsourcing--harnessing the masses to advance health and medicine, a systematic review.
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120 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Crowdsourcing in health and medical research: a systematic review.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2020Pooled it
- Crowdsourcing the Citation Screening Process for Systematic Reviews: Validation Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Pooled it
- Mapping of Crowdsourcing in Health: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Pooled it
- The application of crowdsourcing approaches to cancer research: a systematic review.Cancer medicine · 2017Pooled it
- Reimagining Health Communication: A Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial of Crowdsourced Intervention in China.Sexually transmitted diseases · 2019Trial
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- Crowdsourcing HIV Test Promotion Videos: A Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial in China.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2016Trial
- Co-designing a Blueprint for Home Delivery of Long-Acting Injectable Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for Sexual Minority Men in Chicago.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Assessing the Effectiveness of Crowdsourced Data to Detect Established Tick Populations in Quebec, Canada: Retrospective Ecological Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2026Article
- Crowdsourcing Ideas for the Implementation of Long-Acting Injectable PrEP among Sexual Minority Men in Chicago through an Innovation Tournament.Implementation science communications · 2025Article
- Crowdsourcing strategies to improve access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and China.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Co-creating strategies to promote uptake of HIV self-testing among young adults in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina: a protocol for a pilot implementation study.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- How to (or how not to) implement crowdsourcing for the development of health interventions: lessons learned from four African countries.Health policy and planning · 2024Article
- Usability, Engagement, and Report Usefulness of Chatbot-Based Family Health History Data Collection: Mixed Methods Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Expanding a Behavioral View on Digital Health Access: Drivers and Strategies to Promote Equity.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Patient Perception of Allograft Versus Autograft in ACL Reconstruction Using a Validated Online Survey Marketplace.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2024Article
- Crowdsourcing with the drift diffusion model of decision making.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Reproducible Reporting of the Collection and Evaluation of Annotations for Artificial Intelligence Models.Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2024Article
- Co-designing strategies to implement long-acting injectable PrEP for sexual minority men in Chicago: a study protocol for an innovation tournament and implementation mapping.Implementation science communications · 2024Article
- Online cognitive testing in Parkinson's disease: advantages and challenges.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
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Abstract
objectiveCrowdsourcing research allows investigators to engage thousands of people to provide either data or data analysis. However, prior work has not documented the use of crowdsourcing in health and medical research. We sought to systematically review the literature to describe the scope of crowdsourcing in health research and to create a taxonomy to characterize past uses of this methodology for health and medical research. DATA SOURCES: PubMed, Embase, and CINAHL through March 2013. STUDY ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Primary peer-reviewed literature that used crowdsourcing for health research. STUDY APPRAISAL AND SYNTHESIS
methodsTwo authors independently screened studies and abstracted data, including demographics of the crowd engaged and approaches to crowdsourcing.
resultsTwenty-one health-related studies utilizing crowdsourcing met eligibility criteria. Four distinct types of crowdsourcing tasks were identified: problem solving, data processing, surveillance/monitoring, and surveying. These studies collectively engaged a crowd of >136,395 people, yet few studies reported demographics of the crowd. Only one (5 %) reported age, sex, and race statistics, and seven (33 %) reported at least one of these descriptors. Most reports included data on crowdsourcing logistics such as the length of crowdsourcing (n = 18, 86 %) and time to complete crowdsourcing task (n = 15, 71 %). All articles (n = 21, 100 %) reported employing some method for validating or improving the quality of data reported from the crowd. LIMITATIONS: Gray literature not searched and only a sample of online survey articles included. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF KEY
findingsUtilizing crowdsourcing can improve the quality, cost, and speed of a research project while engaging large segments of the public and creating novel science. Standardized guidelines are needed on crowdsourcing metrics that should be collected and reported to provide clarity and comparability in methods.
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