Join the Rapid, Rapid, Rapid study and help answer an important methodological question!

TheCochrane Rapid Review Methods Group is leading an important piece of methodological research and need your help.Does it make a difference whether abstracts are screened by one or two people to find relevant studies for a systematic review? How many relevant studies will be missed when abstracts are reviewed by only one person? Can the Cochrane RCT-classifier, a machine-learning tool for classifying RCTs and the Cochrane Crowd, do this accurately? The Cochrane Rapid Review Methods Group and the Cochrane Crowd Team have developed a study to try to answer these questions.The study is made up of three ‘arms’ – three different groups that participants to the study could be assigned to. If you already have experience screening search results for a review, you will be randomly assigned to review a set of 100 abstracts and classify them as " Relevant " or " Not Relevant " to a particular research question from a search for either a pharmacological review or for a public health review. If you have no experience screening for reviews, you will be assigned to the " Crowd " arm where you can screen as many records as you like for the pharmacological review.More details about the study can be foundhere.We are looking forparticipants:with and without experience of screening search results for a reviewwilling to spend around 2 to 3 hours screening 100 abstracts over the next three weeksover 18 years of ageTo join, just follow these 4 steps:If you don ' t have a Cochrane Crowd accou...
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