Evaluating the Methodological Quality of Artificial Intelligence–Assisted Systematic Reviews: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Meta-Research Study

Mohammad Jay   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Mary Morgan   ³ , BSc ;   Sharon Elizabeth Straus   ^{2, 4, 5} , MD, MSc ;   Emma Wilson   ⁶ , MLIS ;   Rinku Sutradhar   ^{2, 7, 8} , PhD ;   Catherine Yu   ^{1, 2, 5} , MD, MHSc ;   Lesley Gotlib Conn   ² , PhD ;   Christoffer Dharma   ² , PhD ;   Lorraine Lipscombe   ^{1, 2, 9 *} , MD, MSc ;   Antoine Eskander   ^{2, 10 *} , MD, ScM

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

² Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁶ Library Services, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁷ Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁸ Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁹ Department of Medicine, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁰ Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

*these authors contributed equally