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license: apache-2.0

PROSPERO Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria Dataset

This dataset is a curated and preprocessed collection of clinical research objectives and their corresponding inclusion and exclusion criteria, extracted from the PROSPERO international prospective register of systematic reviews.

Description

The dataset was constructed to support fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) for tasks involving the automated generation of eligibility criteria based on research objectives. It contains English-language research objectives from systematic review protocols across three domains:

Mental health
Diagnostics
Therapeutics

Dataset Structure

Each row in the dataset corresponds to one study protocol and contains:

Study_ID: The unique identifier from PROSPERO (e.g., CRD420250616527)
Objectives: The research objective(s) of the systematic review
Included: The criteria defining which participants/studies are eligible for inclusion
Excluded: The criteria used to disqualify participants/studies from inclusion

Use Case

This dataset is ideal for training or fine-tuning LLMs (like T5, Mistral, LLaMA) on:

Generating inclusion/exclusion criteria from research objectives
Biomedical text-to-text reasoning tasks
Automating systematic review assistance and meta-research workflows

Format

File type: CSV (utf-8)
Fields: Study_ID, Objectives, Included, Excluded
Suggested fields for fine-tuning:
- input_text: Prompt generated from Objectives
- output_text: "Inclusion: ... Exclusion: ..." combined string

License & Attribution

Data is sourced from PROSPERO, a publicly accessible database, and is intended for educational and research purposes only. Please cite the original PROSPERO records when using this dataset in any published work.

🙌 Created By

Sanaa as part of her mission to automate and enhance systematic literature reviews using AI. email: [email protected]