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. 2020 Oct 19;9:243. doi: 10.1186/s13643-020-01450-2

Table 5.

Semi-automation test with RobotAnalyst using a training set of dually reviewed citations from a review-of-review with labels from full-text screening

Traditional search
Total citations: 3181
Title-abstract screening: 201 includes/2980 excludes
Full-text screening: 59 includes/3122 excludes
Review of reviews
Total SR citations: 30
Total primary study citations: 95
Title-abstract screening: 76 includes/49 excludes
Full-text screening 33 includes/43 excludes
Number of citations not screened: 3030
Training set: ROR citations
Labeled citations: 125 (4%)
Training set labels: TP (33), FP (0), TN (92)
Unlabeled citations assigned inclusion prediction by ML algorithm: 3056
Inclusion prediction: 0.3 Inclusion prediction: 0.4 Inclusion Prediction: 0.5
Predicted includes NA 3040 2819 1166
Predicted excludes NA 16 237 1890
Sensitivity 54% 100% 97% 69%
Specificity 100% 3% 10% 63%
Missed citations 26 0 2 18
Burden 4% 99% 93% 41%
Time savings (min) 1561 8 118.5 945

FP false positive, ML machine learning, NA not applicable, TP true positive, TN true positive