embase screening
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Embase screening. Using technology to harness the wisdom of the crowd. # CochraneTech 20 th September 2014 Hyderabad, India. The Embase project. Mission: identify all RCTs in Embase and feed them into CENTRAL Team : Gordon Dooley, Julie Glanville, Anna Noel-Storr. Feeding time. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Embase screeningUsing technology to harness the
wisdom of the crowd
#CochraneTech20th September 2014 Hyderabad, India
The Embase project
Mission: identify all RCTs in Embase and feed them into CENTRAL
Team: Gordon Dooley, Julie Glanville, Anna Noel-Storr
Feeding time
CENTRALHelp make CENTRAL the Go To place for
all RCTs
“…the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by
soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and
especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees…”
CENTRAL
How: Let’s use crowdsourcing
Need rapid ‘on-boarding’Need in-built feedback mechanismNeed in-built quality assurance measures
The screening tool, the way in which guidance is delivered and the way screeners, and us, can evaluate performance is all reliant on how we harness the technology…
How: Let’s use crowdsourcing
Rapid ‘on-boarding’
‘dive on in’
The screening tool
You have to make one of three decisions on each record
1. Simplicity
2. Helpful highlights
We’ve highlighted some key terms and phrases: yellow highlights indicate that the record may be describing an RCT
2. Helpful highlights
Red highlights indicate that the record is likely to be a Reject
3. You are not alone
Two’s company! There is currently one other person screening
Stalwart! You are the only person screening
We have a crowd! There are currently two other people screening
We’re all at it! There are currently three other people screening
4. We are doing well
Sense of progression and orientation
601Signed up
68,465Citations
2459RCTs/q-RCTs
5. You are doing well
RCT RCT RCT
Reject Reject Reject
Unsure
CENTRAL
Bin
Resolver
Using Tech to support new methods
Ux
“Easy to navigate”
“It is so easy to read! And use!”“Really clear and user friendly”
Love it!
Ux: the highlights are the highlight
Makes it quicker to spot the keys issues
In a mass of words, it helps locate the information that I should be searching for
Immediately shows me words that give me a
"first impression"Aside from the actual words that are being highlighted,
it draws your eye to the sentence in which the term appears too, which is usually what you want
It serves as a simple reminder of exclusion criteria without having to open a separate tab/page to review whether a paper should be included or not
The Cochrane eco system
CENTRAL
RCTs from Embase
The Cochrane ecosystem
CENTRAL
RCTs from anywhere
The Cochrane ecosystem
But while we still need people…