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Table 3 Annotation guide for articles that were deemed to potentially motivate a review update on their topic

From: Studying the potential impact of automated document classification on scheduling a systematic review update

Annotation

Description

A

Study includes evidence on new or serious adverse events relevant to this topic.

P

Study includes new patient subgroup, new indication, or evidence specific to new comorbidity.

B

Study is notably better designed, or uses novel methods, compared to prior studies.

L

Study uses a significantly larger sample size than prior studies for this topic.

M

Study includes other significant evidence that may motivate a review update, when taken in combination with other studies.

  1. Each article included in the actual systematic review update was analyzed and assigned either the single most descriptive annotation, or no annotation, if the article was not deemed to be potentially motivating for a review update.