Text mining to support abstract screening for knowledge syntheses: a semi-automated workflow.

Journal: Systematic reviews
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Current text mining tools supporting abstract screening in systematic reviews are not widely used, in part because they lack sensitivity and precision. We set out to develop an accessible, semi-automated "workflow" to conduct abstract screening for systematic reviews and other knowledge synthesis methods.

Authors

  • Ba' Pham
    Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, 209 Victoria St, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1T8, Canada.
  • Jelena Jovanović
    Faculty of Organizational Sciences (FOS), University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia(2). Electronic address: jeljov@gmail.com.
  • Ebrahim Bagheri
    Laboratory for Systems, Software and Semantics (LS3), Ryerson University, Ontario, Canada(1). Electronic address: bagheri@ryerson.ca.
  • Jesmin Antony
    Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, 209 Victoria St, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1T8, Canada.
  • Huda Ashoor
    Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, 209 Victoria St, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1T8, Canada.
  • Tam T Nguyen
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2K3, Canada.
  • Patricia Rios
    Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, 209 Victoria St, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1T8, Canada.
  • Reid Robson
    Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, 209 Victoria St, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1T8, Canada.
  • Sonia M Thomas
    Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, 209 Victoria St, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1T8, Canada.
  • Jennifer Watt
    Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, 209 Victoria St, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1T8, Canada.
  • Sharon E Straus
    Unity Health Toronto (Verma, Murray, Straus, Pou-Prom, Mamdani); Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital (Verma, Straus, Pou-Prom, Mamdani); Department of Medicine (Verma, Shojania, Straus, Mamdani) and Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation (Verma, Mamdani) and Department of Statistics (Murray), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; University of Alberta (Greiner); Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Greiner), Edmonton, Alta.; Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (Cohen), Montréal, Que.; Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (Shojania), University of Toronto; Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Shojania); Vector Institute (Ghassemi, Mamdani) and Department of Computer Science (Ghassemi); Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy (Mamdani), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Department of Radiology, Stanford University (Cohen), Stanford, Calif.
  • Andrea C Tricco
    Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, 209 Victoria St, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1T8, Canada. Andrea.Tricco@unityhealth.to.