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Table 2 Numerical recall and precision for the CAT Crawler meta-search engine and two individual search engines at BestBETs and UMHS

From: Quantitative evaluation of recall and precision of CAT Crawler, a search engine specialized on retrieval of Critically Appraised Topics

 

Recall (%)

Precision (%)

 

BestBETs & UMHS

CAT Crawler

BestBETs & UMHS

CAT Crawler

p-value

Appendicitis

96.15

96.15

76.92 (±4.80)

96.15 (±6.00)

0.000

Colic

54.81

54.81

51.58 (±2.58)

97.44 (±4.87)

0.000

Intubation

44.12

44.12

48.39 (±13.56)

68.18 (±19.10)

0.130

Ketoacidosis

48.72

48.72

36.54 (±12.97)

73.08 (±25.94)

0.001

Octreotide

59.62

59.62

47.69 (±10.13)

79.49 (±16.88)

0.000

Palsy

70.77

70.77

64.34 (±16.37)

70.77 (±18.01)

0.002

Prophylaxis

67.03

67.03

63.41 (±11.60)

78.21 (±14.31)

0.074

Sleep

57.95

57.95

48.29 (±19.82)

54.33 (±22.30)

0.038

Tape

46.15

46.15

46.15 (±7.31)

92.31 (±14.62)

0.000

Ultrasound

42.22

42.22

43.22 (±8.06)

62.60 (±11.68)

0.017

Average

58.75 (±16.25)

58.75 (±16.25)

52.65 (±12.0)

77.26 (±14.45)

0.000