Published June 25, 2021 | Version V1.0
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Artificial intelligence supports literature screening in medical guideline development: towards up-to-date medical guidelines.

  • 1. Knowledge Institute of the Dutch Federation of Medical Specialists, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • 2. Department of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht, University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • 3. Department of Research and Data Management Services, Information Technology Services, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

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In a time of exponential growth of new evidence supporting clinical decision making, combined with a labor-intensive process of selecting this evidence, there is a need for methods to speed up current processes in order to keep medical guidelines up-to-date. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance and feasibility of active learning to support the selection of relevant publications within the context of medical guideline development.

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Is supplemented by
Software documentation: 10.5281/zenodo.5031390 (DOI)
Dataset: https://osf.io/vt3n4/ (URL)