Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics

Nevis IF

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• Research Article
  Quality Control Tool for Screening Titles and Abstracts by seco nd Reviewer: QCTSTAR
  Author(s): Nevis IF, Sikich N, Ye C and Kabali CNevis IF, Sikich N, Ye C and Kabali C
  
  Background: Systematic reviews (SRs) remain the core of evidence based medicine. Routinely, two reviewers are required to screen titles and abstracts in SRs. Nonetheless, many organizations may use a single reviewer due to restricted time and resources. In situations where there is only a single reviewer, we propose a sampling method and assessed its performance in a simulation study. Methods: We described the sampling process guided by a set of instructions. For validation, we generated 20,000 citations from a skewed normal distribution and assigned a score of raters’ agreement. From these, we randomly selected a fixed number of citations, whose probability of selection was determined by a uniform distribution, and repeated the iteration 1000 times. In each iteration set, the sample size was fixed at 50, 100, and 200. Results: We evaluated the sampling performance and proposed .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-6180.1000230

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