Sentence examples for lay reviewers from inspiring English sources

"At present we are recruiting the lay reviewers from those already involved with, or interested in, research.

"We also are looking into putting training into place for lay reviewers in the future, so that they will have a thorough understanding of the issues to consider when appraising articles".

Face and content validity were evaluated by eight lay reviewers and 10 expert reviewers.

Second, a domain expert may need to work with lay reviewers to come up with the gold standard for NLP.

Domain experts are sometimes influenced by their clinical experience (e.g. most COPD patients to be past or current smoker), while lay reviewers tend to rely on text alone.

"In the case of this article, a lay reviewer would have been able to offer valuable insights as to the quality and potential impact of user involvement, which would help improve the overall quality of the article," he suggests.

The lay reviewer had minimal prior knowledge of the subject.

Two reviewers (one lay reviewer [GB], one medical reviewer [DMR]) appraised the articles for their tone.

The assessment was made independently and in duplicate by the lay reviewer and medical expert in order to allow comparison.

Among those with disagreement, the lay reviewer was significantly more likely to appraise articles as worrisome compared to the medical reviewer (77.4% vs. 3.2%, X2 = 9.11, P = 0.003).

The general messaging expressed in these articles was considered "worrisome", particularly by the lay reviewer, and the overall quality of reporting was modest.