RobotReviewer: auto-assessment of bias in clinical trials

Where to start with this marvel?  Perhaps, the RobotReviewer website that allows you free access to upload PDFs of clinical trials and have them automatically assessed for bias.  Alternatively, there is the recent peer-reviewed journal article RobotReviewer: evaluation of a system for automatically assessing bias in clinical trials.  Or even the various tweets that have been tweeted by a multitude of people. But what is RobotReviewer? The aims … Continue reading RobotReviewer: auto-assessment of bias in clinical trials

Article review: Systematic review automation technologies

In 2014 Guy Tsafnat, Paul Glasziou and others wrote the paper Systematic review automation technologies where the authors “…surveyed literature describing informatics systems that support or automate the processes of systematic review or each of the tasks of the systematic review.“ It is an excellent overview of the potential of automation in the systematic review process.  They do this by breaking down the systematic review … Continue reading Article review: Systematic review automation technologies

List of articles (automation, text-mining etc.)

Below is a list of articles related to increasing value in evidence synthesis.  It focuses on automation techniques such as text-mining and machine learning. There is a separate, non-automation list: List of articles 2006 Reducing workload in systematic review preparation using automated citation classification Cohen AM et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Mar-Apr;13(2):206-19. 2007 Text Classification on Imbalanced Data: Application to Systematic Review … Continue reading List of articles (automation, text-mining etc.)