Dual-screening: if other screener includes, full text presented (violates independence)#65

When screening in Dual Screening mode, if one user has Included and uploaded a full text, the Full Text screen is automatically presented to the other screener. This ‘lets the cat out of the bag’ on what the other screener’s decision was. It would be most efficient and effective to present the abstract automatically in Dual Screening mode, and then if the full text is already uploaded, just skip that step after a study is included– but don’t show the full text before the screener clicks ‘Include’.

This is happening during the nest I am currently dual screening on as well.

Thanks for the feedback! I’m tracking this as a change to 1. Not leak the full text 2. Not display the inclusion probability. I think both of these could bias reviewers in counter-productive ways.

Thank you for the help Karl! I’m trying to stay non-bias, but when I’m screening a neurovascular imaging modalities nest, with a neurovascular interventionalist resident, I would inherently defer to his screening choices. Seeing the full text makes me not neutral.

Just following up on this, I am dual screening a nest with SME and we’ve got the same thing going on.

Thanks Kristen - we’re fixing this as part of our larger initiative to (better) support dual modes on the site (#60), which is why it’s moving a bit slowly. Luckily, this will be one of the first things we fix in that initiative!

Correcting status; we do have appropriate structure in place to solve this problem now, but the old behavior persists.

Full Text Blinding was added in release 1.60.1. When a nest is configured for dual screening and:

1. Is configured for standard screening mode, users doing reviewer-level screening
2. Is configured for two pass screening mode, users doing reviewer-level abstract screening

will be blinded. The message will be shown regardless of if a FT has been uploaded or not. It can be closed with a single click to view/upload the FT when needed. FT blinding will not be done in Inspector; as per usual, our advice remains to perform all screening in the queues.

Thank you for the feedback, and your patience on this overdue feature!