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ArticleProceedings. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine2015

A Prototype for a Hybrid System to Support Systematic Review Teams: A Case Study of Organ Transplantation.

Tanja Bekhuis, Eugene Tseytlin, Kevin J Mitchell

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Article in Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Tanja BekhuisDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Department of Dental Public Health, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Eugene TseytlinDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Kevin J MitchellDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

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Screening Nonrandomized Studies for Inclusion in Systematic Reviews of EvidenceR00LM010943 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BEKHUIS, TANJA CATHARINA · 2012 to 2014
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NLM NIH HHS R00 LM010943
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe a prototype for a hybrid system designed to reduce the number of citations needed to re-screen (NNRS) by systematic reviewers, where citations include titles, abstracts, and metadata. The system obviates the need for screening the entire set of citations a second time, which is typically done to control human error. The reference set is based on a complex review about organ transplantation (N=10,796 citations). Data were split into 50% training and test sets, randomly stratified for percentage eligible citations. The system consists of a rule-based module and a machine-learning (ML) module. The former substantially reduces the number of negative citations passed to the ML module and improves imbalance. Relative to the baseline, the system reduces classification error (5.6% vs 2.9%) thereby reducing NNRS by 47.3% (300 vs 158). We discuss the implications of de-emphasizing sensitivity (recall) in favor of specificity and negative predictive value to reduce screening burden.

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PMID26855824
PMCPMC4742277

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