OBJECTIVES: Data extraction from original study reports is a time-consuming, error-prone process in systematic review development. Information extraction (IE) systems have the potential to assist humans in the extraction task, however majority of IE ...
BACKGROUND: Surgery is in a constant continuum of innovation with refinement of technique and instrumentation. Arthroplasty surgery potentially represents an area with highly innovative process. This study highlights key area of innovation in knee ar...
BACKGROUND: Risk-of-bias assessments are now a standard component of systematic reviews. At present, reviewers need to manually identify relevant parts of research articles for a set of methodological elements that affect the risk of bias, in order t...
BACKGROUND: Identifying relevant studies for inclusion in a systematic review (i.e. screening) is a complex, laborious and expensive task. Recently, a number of studies has shown that the use of machine learning and text mining methods to automatical...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 22, 2015
OBJECTIVE: To develop and evaluate RobotReviewer, a machine learning (ML) system that automatically assesses bias in clinical trials. From a (PDF-formatted) trial report, the system should determine risks of bias for the domains defined by the Cochra...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Feb 5, 2015
OBJECTIVE: For many literature review tasks, including systematic review (SR) and other aspects of evidence-based medicine, it is important to know whether an article describes a randomized controlled trial (RCT). Current manual annotation is not com...
OBJECTIVES: To examine the use of supervised machine learning to identify biases in evidence selection and determine if citation information can predict favorable conclusions in reviews about neuraminidase inhibitors.
Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery : JPRAS
Jun 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) that has been proposed as a scientific writing tool, though its ethical use remains a highly debated topic within the academic community. This article defines the strengths and weaknesses of ChatGPT...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Large Language Models (LLMs) offer potential for automating systematic reviews, a labor-intensive process in evidence-based medicine. We evaluated GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, and Llama 3.1:8B on abstract screening and risk of bias assessment using 12 Cochra...
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