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. 2020 Aug 6;8(8):e16948. doi: 10.2196/16948

Table 5.

Changes in clinical winners (highest value of n4) per model and disease target x considering observer O1 and O2.

Disease target x Model Differences in clinical winner max (n4) according to observers Treatment z1 search query Treatment z2 search query n1 n2 n3 n4
epilepsy Skip-gram Observer O2a: New valproate levetiracetam 2 10 9 7
arthritis CBOWb Observer O2: n4 different plus_methotrexate methotrexate 1 12 9 6
arthritis CBOW Observer O2: New methotrexate DMARDsc 2 11 9 6
arthritis Skip-gram Observer O2: New IACId DMARDs 2 9 6 5
arthritis Skip-gram Observer O2: New plus_methotrexate DMARDs 2 10 6 5
anaemia Skip-gram Observer O1e: n4 different recombinant_human_erythropoietin iron 2 11 8 4

aO2: BMJ health informatician who works with BMJ Best Practice content and has a junior doctor background.

bCBOW: Continuous Bag-of-Words.

cDMARD: disease-modifying antirheumatic drug.

dIACI: intra-articular corticosteroid injection.

eO1: medical consultant.