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Cochrane Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT) Classifier

"Distinguishes randomised controlled trials from other types of study within research papers to help NICE staff narrow down the number of papers they need to read and review for evidence synthesis."

Publicly known

  • Owner: NICE
  • Vendor: University College London (UCL), EPPI Centre

Undisclosed

  • Model architecture
  • Model performance benchmarks
  • Training data provenance

Who is actually being paid

Supplier arrangement · described jointly for all 2 suppliers

Role

The UCL team worked with NICE to implement the RCT classifier into EPPI R5 (an application for systematic reviewing). The underpinning algorithms for the RCT classifier are managed and maintained by UCL staff.

Procurement procedure

The services of UCL were not procured, but provided to NICE without charge in the spirit of collaboration.

University College London (UCL)

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EPPI Centre

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Source: ATRS record · last updated Thu Feb 27 2025