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Dual Two-Pass screening is a sequential, quality controlled screening process that has two steps. In the first step, two users sequentially Advance or Exclude articles at the Abstract level. Any disagreements at this step are adjudicated by an Admin. In the second step, two users conduct a Full Text Review and Include or Exclude articles. All disagreements this second step must also be adjudicated by an Admin.
Only those with Admin privileges can serve as Adjudicators, but any user can serve as a Screener.
You will need to Configuring Exclusion Reasons before screening underlying studies.
Note: Toggling back from Dual Screening to Standard Screening (or switching to Two-Pass Screening) will ONLY save final adjudications, so all records without an adjudicated Include or Exclude decision will be reverted to Unscreened and all data associated with individual users' decisions will be lost!
Two independent reviewers will need to review the abstract of every study and screen the abstracts using the same approach as Standard Screening Mode with the exception that studies are only advanced to full-text screening at this stage instead of included. AutoLit automatically queues the abstracts to all users until two screening decisions are made; then, the abtracts are sent forward for adjudication.
There is an option to auto-adjudicate. For any study that is not Auto-Adjudicated, an Admin will need to manually adjudicate in order to provide a final screening decision on the abstracts. The Admin should choose between selecting the decision of Screener 1 or Screener 2, or if both are incorrect, provide a different option. Once adjudicated, the studies will either be excluded or included and sent forward to Full Text Screening.
