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ERIC Number: EJ1447269
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Nov
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1759-2879
EISSN: EISSN-1759-2887
Towards the Automatic Risk of Bias Assessment on Randomized Controlled Trials: A Comparison of RobotReviewer and Humans
Yuan Tian; Xi Yang; Suhail A. Doi; Luis Furuya-Kanamori; Lifeng Lin; Joey S. W. Kwong; Chang Xu
Research Synthesis Methods, v15 n6 p1111-1119 2024
RobotReviewer is a tool for automatically assessing the risk of bias in randomized controlled trials, but there is limited evidence of its reliability. We evaluated the agreement between RobotReviewer and humans regarding the risk of bias assessment based on 1955 randomized controlled trials. The risk of bias in these trials was assessed via two different approaches: (1) manually by human reviewers, and (2) automatically by the RobotReviewer. The manual assessment was based on two groups independently, with two additional rounds of verification. The agreement between RobotReviewer and humans was measured via the concordance rate and Cohen's kappa statistics, based on the comparison of binary classification of the risk of bias (low vs. high/unclear) as restricted by RobotReviewer. The concordance rates varied by domain, ranging from 63.07% to 83.32%. Cohen's kappa statistics showed a poor agreement between humans and RobotReviewer for allocation concealment (K = 0.25, 95% CI: 0.21-0.30), blinding of outcome assessors (K = 0.27, 95% CI: 0.23-0.31); While moderate for random sequence generation (K = 0.46, 95% CI: 0.41-0.50) and blinding of participants and personnel (K = 0.59, 95% CI: 0.55-0.64). The findings demonstrate that there were domain-specific differences in the level of agreement between RobotReviewer and humans. We suggest that it might be a useful auxiliary tool, but the specific manner of its integration as a complementary tool requires further discussion.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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