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Beller, Elaine, Clark, Justin, Tsafnat, Guy, Adams, Clive E., Diehl, Heinz, Lund, Hans, Ouzzani, Mourad, Thayer, Kristina, Thomas, James, Turner, Tari, Xia, Jun, Robinson, Karen and Glasziou, Paul (2018) Making progress with the automation of systematic reviews: principles of the International Collaboration for the Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR). Systematic Reviews, 7 . 77/1-77/7. ISSN 2046-4053

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Abstract

Systematic reviews (SR) are vital to health care, but have become complicated and time-consuming, due to the rapid expansion of evidence to be synthesised. Fortunately, many tasks of systematic reviews have the potential to be automated or may be assisted by automation. Recent advances in natural language processing, text mining and machine learning have produced new algorithms that can accurately mimic human endeavour in systematic review activity, faster and more cheaply. Automation tools need to be able to work together, to exchange data and results. Therefore, we initiated the International Collaboration for the Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR), to successfully put all the parts of automation of systematic review production together. The first meeting was held in Vienna in October 2015. We established a set of principles to enable tools to be developed and integrated into toolkits.

This paper sets out the principles devised at that meeting, which cover the need for improvement in efficiency of SR tasks, automation across the spectrum of SR tasks, continuous improvement, adherence to high quality standards, flexibility of use and combining components, the need for a collaboration and varied skills, the desire for open source, shared code and evaluation, and a requirement for replicability through rigorous and open evaluation.

Automation has a great potential to improve the speed of systematic reviews. Considerable work is already being done on many of the steps involved in a review. The ‘Vienna Principles’ set out in this paper aim to guide a more coordinated effort which will allow the integration of work by separate teams and build on the experience, code and evaluations done by the many teams working across the globe.

Item Type:	Article
RIS ID:	https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/933235
Keywords:	Systematic review; Automation; Collaboration
Schools/Departments:	University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Medicine > Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology
Identification Number:	10.1186/s13643-018-0740-7
Depositing User:	Eprints, Support
Date Deposited:	25 May 2018 08:49
Last Modified:	04 May 2020 19:37
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/52027

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