TY - JOUR AU - Brockmeier, Austin J. AU - Ju, Meizhi AU - PrzybyƂa, Piotr AU - Ananiadou, Sophia PY - 2019 DA - 2019/12/05 TI - Improving reference prioritisation with PICO recognition JO - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making SP - 256 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Machine learning can assist with multiple tasks during systematic reviews to facilitate the rapid retrieval of relevant references during screening and to identify and extract information relevant to the study characteristics, which include the PICO elements of patient/population, intervention, comparator, and outcomes. The latter requires techniques for identifying and categorising fragments of text, known as named entity recognition. SN - 1472-6947 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0992-8 DO - 10.1186/s12911-019-0992-8 ID - Brockmeier2019 ER -