ArticleJAMIA open2022
Evaluation of publication type tagging as a strategy to screen randomized controlled trial articles in preparing systematic reviews.
Article in JAMIA open, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- A similarity metric, rubric, and unified hierarchy for biomedical publication types and study designs.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026Article
- Goals and strategies for the indexing of publication types and study designs.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026Article
- Enhancing automated indexing of publication types and study designs in biomedical literature using full-text features.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Publication Type Tagging using Transformer Models and Multi-Label Classification.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Automation of systematic reviews of biomedical literature: a scoping review of studies indexed in PubMed.Systematic reviews · 2024Article
- Publication Type Tagging using Transformer Models and Multi-Label Classification.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2024Article
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Abstract
Objectives: To produce a systematic review (SR), reviewers typically screen thousands of titles and abstracts of articles manually to find a small number which are read in full text to find relevant articles included in the final SR. Here, we evaluate a proposed automated probabilistic publication type screening strategy applied to the randomized controlled trial (RCT) articles (i.e., those which present clinical outcome results of RCT studies) included in a corpus of previously published Cochrane reviews. Materials and Methods: We selected a random subset of 558 published Cochrane reviews that specified RCT study only inclusion criteria, containing 7113 included articles which could be matched to PubMed identifiers. These were processed by our automated RCT Tagger tool to estimate the probability that each article reports clinical outcomes of a RCT. Results: Removing articles with low predictive scores Discussion: This scenario, based on real SRs, demonstrates that automated tagging can identify RCT articles accurately while maintaining very high recall. However, we also found that even SRs whose inclusion criteria are restricted to RCT studies include not only clinical outcome articles per se, but a variety of ancillary article types as well. Conclusions: This encourages further studies learning how best to incorporate automated tagging of additional publication types into SR triage workflows.
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