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Table 1 Formulas for calculating sensitivity, 1-specificity, and precision.

From: Electronic search strategies to identify reports of cluster randomized trials in MEDLINE: low precision will improve with adherence to reporting standards

 

Eligible articles

Ineligible articles

Total articles

Retrieved by search strategy

a

b

a+b

Not retrieved by search strategy

c

d

c+d

Total

a+c

b+d

N