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Table 5.

Time taken for the manual and automation teams to learn and complete each systematic review (SR) task.

SR task No.	SR task	Total time, hours:minutes			Time doing task, hours:minutes			Time learning task, hours:minutes
		Manual	Automation	Manual		Automation	Manual		Automation
1	Formulate the question	1:00^a	N/A^b	1:00^a		N/A	0:00		N/A
2	Check for similar reviews	1:00^a	N/A	1:00^a		N/A	0:00		N/A
3	Write the protocol	4:00^a	N/A	4:00^a		N/A	0:00		N/A
4	Design the systematic search	13:00^a	N/A	13:00^a		N/A	0:00		N/A
5	Run the systematic search	6:15	1:20	5:00		0:37	1:15		0:43
6	Deduplicate the search results	2:09	0:36	2:09		0:12	0:00		0:24
7	Screen the titles and abstracts	5:10	3:33	4:40		3:28	0:30		0:05
8	Find the full text	0:50	0:23	0:50		0:18	0:00		0:05
9	Screen the full text	3:29	3:44	3:29		3:44	0:00		0:00
10	Conduct a citation analysis	7:43	N/A	7:43		N/A	0:00		N/A
11	Extract the data	9:42	N/A	9:42		N/A	0:00		N/A
12	Assess the risk of bias	23:40	2:12^c	19:20		2:11^c	4:20		0:01^c
13	Synthesize the data	10:00	N/A	8:00		N/A	2:00		N/A
14	Rerun the systematic search	0:22	N/A	0:22		N/A	0:00		N/A
15	Conduct a meta-analysis	16:00	N/A	10:00		N/A	6:00		N/A
16	Write the results	21:20	N/A	10:40		N/A	10:40		N/A
All tasks	Tasks done by both teams	41:33	11:48	35:28		10:30	6:05		1:18
All tasks	Tasks done by manual team	125:40^a	N/A	100:55^a		N/A	24:45^a		N/A

^aApproximate time only.

^bN/A: not applicable; task not done by automation team.

^cTask partially completed; four of seven domains assessed.