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Table 4 Recall into the top 10

From: Can electronic search engines optimize screening of search results in systematic reviews: an empirical study

Review Number

N of records retrieved from MEDLINE

N of included studies ranked in the top 10

N of included indexed in MEDLINE

Recall

Gibbs [11]

5743

0

27

0.00

Yeung [12]

4996

1

11

0.09

Smeeth [17]

3119

2

5

0.40

Towheed [18]

1556

0

17

0.00

Shelley [19]

1486

0

5

0.00

Karjalainen [20]

1244

0

2

0.00

Malthaner [21]

2321

2

6

0.33

Bowen [22]

4629

2

14

0.14

Mulrow [23]

1405

0

39

0.00

Total

26499

7

136

0.06