"initially reviewed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe the first time something was looked at. For example, "The data was initially reviewed before detailed analysis was conducted."
All studied were initially reviewed by two reviewers (HS, MS) and summaries of the findings were derived after discussion among other reviewers (SS, AB and CHEI).
Our study was initially reviewed by The UM Prevention Research Base DSMB beginning in the second year from initial funding and monthly after that.
Even some right-wing critics, like Daniel Pipes, who initially reviewed the book positively, later admitted that Peters's work was shoddy and "ignores inconvenient facts".
Dr. Tilley said in a telephone interview that she had initially reviewed Wertham's papers looking for correspondence he might have had with educators and librarians of his day.
Here is the official peer review policy for RIDD: In order to maintain a rapid rate of review all submitted manuscripts are initially reviewed by the Editor in Chief for completeness and appropriateness to the journal's stated Aims and Scope.
We initially reviewed Zumodrive here.
A total of 21 patients were initially reviewed.
We initially reviewed Scout Labs' product in 2007 and are big fans of tracking dashboard.
From 1,696 studies initially reviewed, 28 articles describing 23 programs were included.
They are prepared in draft form initially, reviewed by an oversight committee, revised, and then published as a formal document.
One author (ELA) initially reviewed the titles and abstracts of all articles identified by the search terms to exclude all clearly ineligible articles.
