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. 2025 Aug 25;25:199. doi: 10.1186/s12874-025-02644-9

Table 1.

Prompts for literature screening

Prompt
prompt = (
"Determine whether the provided literature (title, abstract) represents a randomized controlled trial (RCT).\n"
f"Please make a judgment based on the following paper title and abstract:\nTitle: {title} \nAbstract: {abstract}\nn"
"1. Review the title, abstract, and content of the PDF document.\n"
"2. Determine if the study involves random assignment of participants to different interventions.\n"
"3. Consider key indicators of RCTs such as \"randomized\", \"controlled\", \"trial\", \"random allocation\", and \"random assignment\".\n"
"4. If the study explicitly states it is an RCT or meets the criteria of an RCT, classify it as \"yes\".\n"
"5. If the study does not meet the criteria or lacks sufficient information to determine, classify it as \"no\".\n"
"output_format:\n"
"{\n"
"\"result\": \"yes\"or \"no\"\n"
"}\n"
"Output the json data only, with no additional text.")