Australia–Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme

We are one of the 45 projects awarded funding under the Universities Australia – DAAD Joint Research Co-operation Scheme. This scheme facilitates the exchange of early career researchers in Australia and Germany from early 2023 until the end of 2024.

Systematic reviews are crucial for evidence-based medicine as they comprehensively analyse published research findings on specific questions. Conducting such reviews is often resource- and time-intensive, especially in the screening phase, where abstracts of publications are assessed for inclusion in a review.

Screening prioritisation in medical systematic reviews aims to rank the set of documents retrieved by complex Boolean queries. Prioritising the most important documents ensures that subsequent review steps can be carried out more efficiently and effectively.

Systematic reviews are comprehensive literature reviews for a highly focused research question. These reviews are considered the highest form of evidence in medicine. Complex Boolean queries are developed as part of the systematic review creation process to retrieve literature, as they permit reproducibility and understandability.