Speaker: Elena Ierardi, PhD
Elena Ierardi is a rehabilitation researcher whose work focuses on improving the methodology of systematic reviews and enhancing efficiency in clinical research. She holds a PhD in Clinical and Developmental Psychology and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca. Her research particularly explores the application of text data mining and digital tools in healthcare evidence synthesis. In the presented study, she developed an innovative Python-based algorithm that significantly accelerates abstract screening in systematic reviews. Her work contributes to helping researchers and clinicians manage the rapidly expanding scientific literature more effectively.
Data mining versus manual screening to select papers for inclusion in systematic reviews: a novel method to increase efficiency
DOI: 10.1097/MRR.0000000000000595