Systematic Review Precision Data
Description
This dataset contains extracted and coded information from 771 systematic reviews indexed in PubMed and published in January 2024. Data elements include: Review-level metadata (e.g., title, DOI, clinical question type) Librarian involvement (coded as author, mentioned in methods, acknowledged, or not mentioned) Number of databases searched Screening metrics (articles retrieved, after deduplication, full texts sought, included) Calculated metrics: soft and hard precision, number needed to read (NNR), number needed for full text (NNFT) Country affiliation of lead author, World Bank income classification, and world region All data were extracted from publicly available publications and do not contain any identifiable personal or patient information.
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Steps to reproduce
Conduct descriptive and inferential analyses using IBM SPSS Statistics, or other similar statistical software. Tests include independent samples t-tests, ANOVA, Tukey’s HSD, chi-square tests, Spearman correlations, and Kruskal-Wallis with post hoc Mann-Whitney U tests (with Bonferroni correction).