AIMC Journal:
Cochrane evidence synthesis and methods

INTRODUCTION: Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of technology enabling machines to emulate complex human skills; it can also entail problem-solving using bioinspired methods. It is used for automating systematic literature reviews (SLR), that ...

INTRODUCTION: Rapid reviews aim to deliver timely evidence for decision-makers when full systematic reviews are not possible or practical. Efficient selection of studies is challenging when questions are complex, or the evidence base is diffuse. METH...

INTRODUCTION: Carrying out a systematic review (SR) of the literature entails a high workload and encompasses a variety of very different tasks. The emergence of artificial intelligence tools has brought further opportunities to improve the efficienc...

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BACKGROUND: Manual abstract screening is a primary bottleneck in evidence synthesis. Emerging evidence suggests that large language models (LLMs) can automate this task, but their performance when processing multiple references simultaneously in "bat...

OBJECTIVES: Systematic evidence reviews (SERs) produced by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program use contextual questions to provide context and background information on the topic. Th...