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ArticleJMIR formative research2026

AI-Assisted Systematic Review: Humans Still Need to Review All Abstracts for Inclusion.

Hyelin Sung, Deyana Altahsh, Scott Garrison

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Article in JMIR formative research, 2026. 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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0citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Hyelin Sung *Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6513-0709
Deyana Altahsh *Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.ORCID 0009-0008-0233-7893
Scott GarrisonDepartment of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, 6-60 University Terrace, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2T4, Canada, 1 (587) 785 3012.ORCID 0000-0002-7024-2158

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unlabelled: Although a general purpose (GPT-5), and a fine-tuned (ASReviewLab) artificial intelligence were able to rank abstracts for likely inclusion in a variety of Cochrane systematic reviews, some actually included studies were not highly ranked, necessitating human review of all abstracts.

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Abstracting and IndexingArtificial IntelligenceSystematic Reviews as TopicHumansAIartificial intelligenceASReviewLabChatGPTGPT-5large language modelLLMmachine learningsystematic reviewtitle and abstract screening

Identifiers

PMID41855478
PMCPMC13002160

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.