Evidence synthesis is essential—but screening thousands of citations is costly, slow, and labor-intensive. Johns Hopkins’ Lisa Brown, Research Associate in the Department of Health Policy & Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, along with Dr. Karen Robinson, Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of JHU’s Evidence-based Practice Center, tackled this head-on in their recent study presented at the 2024 Global Evidence Summit – showing the reliability of PICO Portal’s priority screening algorithm.
In a series of eight chronic kidney disease treatment reviews and a total of 29,582 unique citations, they used PICO Portal to assist with title/abstract screening. Citations were re-ranked based on predicted inclusion, allowing teams to stop screening early while maintaining 95% recall—dramatically reducing reviewer workload with no impact on the review findings. Results showed the pooled sensitivity of the screening was 100% (95% confidence interval [CI], 90%-100%) and specificity was 50% (95% CI, 30%-60%).
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