Automated screening service for randomised trials
Screen4Me is a service designed by Cochrane to help review teams get through the screening of search results much more quickly without compromising on quality. It comprises three components: known assessments - a service that matches records in the search results to records that have already been screened in Cochrane Crowd and been labeled as an RCT or as Not an RCT; the RCT classifier - a machine learning model that distinguishes RCTs from non-RCTs, and if appropriate; Cochrane Crowd - Cochrane's citizen science platform where the Crowd help to identify and describe health evidence. Once the review team has conducted the searches, the de-duplicated search results are loaded into the Cochrane Register of Studies. Once imported, the Screen4Me workflow can be applied. The first part of the workflow will identify any already known RCTs; the second stage will remove very obvious non-RCT records from the set via machine learning; the final stage sends the remaining records to be assessed by a crowd via Cochrane Crowd. At the end of the process, the author team are hopefully left with a much-reduced batch of records to assess. The service reduces the workload by 50-70% . However, it is currently only available for Cochrane intervention reviews that are looking to include evidence from randomised controlled trials only.
