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. 2022 Feb 26;13(4):447–456. doi: 10.1002/jrsm.1552

TABLE 2.

Search filter performance measures 5

Measure Definition
Sensitivity (recall) Number of records retrieved by the filter as a proportion of the gold standard set of references
Precision Number of relevant records retrieved as a proportion of the total records retrieved
Specificity Number of irrelevant records correctly not retrieved, as a proportion (usually expressed as a percentage) of all the irrelevant records in the database searched