Table 3.
Articles retrieved by the literature searches conducted in the published SRa and numbers of articles available for analysis in this studyb.
| SR | PubMed-indexed articles retrieved in the SR, n | Source of articles ultimately used in the SRc | Dataset developed for this study | |||||
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Any, n | PubMedd, n | Articles retrieved from PubMed by our searche, n | PubMed-cited articles included in the SR retrieved by our search, n (%)f | Total articles available for analysis using RMESg,h, n | Articles included in the SR, n (%)f | |
| Zengerling et al [28] | 849 | 42 | 16 | 368 | 16 (100) | 335 | 16 (100) | |
| Ferrara et al [29] | 4935 | 31 | 10 | 5688 | 8 (80) | 5612 | 8 (80) | |
| Safi et al [30] | 2471 | 56 | 53 | 2471 | 51 (96.2) | 2184 | 44 (83) | |
| Sethi et al [31] | 3658 | 61 | 51 | 3779 | 47 (92.2) | 3341 | 46 (90.2) | |
| Roaldsen et al [32] | 516 | 7 | 7 | 1411 | 5 (71.4) | 1373 | 5 (71.4) | |
| Martí-Carvajal et al [33] | 359 | 10 | 7 | 494 | 7 (100) | 489 | 7 (100) | |
| Wang et al [34] | 978 | 15 | 12 | 4153 | 11 (91.7) | 4043 | 11 (91.7) | |
| Musini et al [35] | 1252 | 23 | 11 | 4656 | 11 (100) | 4457 | 11 (100) | |
| Hemmingsen et al [36] | 2872 | 202 | 51 | 2924 | 50 (98) | 2603 | 46 (90.2) | |
| Gnesin et al [37] | 3549 | 46 | 36 | 3684 | 7 (19.4) | 3484 | 7 (19.4) | |
| Burckhardt et al [38] | 37 | 19 | 4 | 47 | 4 (100) | 46 | 4 (100) | |
| Showell et al [39] | 865 | 79 | 47 | 992 | 40 (85.1) | 973 | 40 (85.1) | |
aSR: systematic review.
bTables S2A-S2L in Multimedia Appendix 1 show the search queries used for each SR. Table S3 in Multimedia Appendix 1 shows the filters applied for each review. Tables S4A-S4L in Multimedia Appendix 1 list the articles analyzed using RMES.
cSource of the articles used by the authors in the SR includes articles retrieved from PubMed, Embase, or other databases, and manual review of published reference lists, for example.
dNumber of PubMed-indexed articles that were used by the authors in each SR. This number was used as the denominator to calculate percentages of articles included in the SR.
eNumber of articles retrieved from PubMed using the modified search queries shown in Table S2A-S2L in Multimedia Appendix 1.
fThe values in column “PubMed, n” are the denominators.
gRMES: Rapid Medical Evidence Synthesis.
hPubMed-indexed articles with an abstract.