Screen abstracts

Paste your inclusion and exclusion criteria with an abstract and Anara returns include, exclude, or uncertain, naming the criterion that drove the decision. Use it on a shortlist you have already narrowed down, before committing to full-text import. For ten-thousand-record exports, dedicated tools like Rayyan or Covidence are built for the scale.

Prompt

A public health PhD student screens sixty-three abstracts for a review on compassion fatigue interventions in emergency service workers.

I am screening abstracts for a systematic review on compassion fatigue interventions in emergency service workers. My inclusion and exclusion criteria are:

Inclusion: peer-reviewed empirical studies, participants are emergency service workers (police, fire, paramedics, or similar), intervention addresses compassion fatigue or secondary traumatic stress, published 2010 or later.
Exclusion: case studies or anecdotal reports, participants are exclusively healthcare workers (not emergency services), no measurable outcome reported, non-English language.

Apply these criteria to the following abstract. Return: decision (Include / Exclude / Uncertain), which criteria drove the decision, and one sentence explaining the judgment.

[Paste the abstract here]

What to add to your library

• Required: your inclusion and exclusion criteria, stated clearly.
• Required: the abstract or set of abstracts to screen.
• Optional: an already-decided include and exclude from the same review, as calibration.
• Optional: your PICO framework, applied alongside the written criteria.

What you get

• A decision per abstract with the triggering criterion named and a one-sentence rationale.
• For uncertain decisions, the specific ambiguous criterion flagged for your judgment.
• A consistent, documented record of your screening process. The final call stays yours.

Follow-ups

Screen a batch of ten at once.

Apply the same screening criteria to the following ten abstracts. Return a numbered list: each abstract number, the decision (Include / Exclude / Uncertain), and the one-sentence rationale. Flag any abstract where the decision is uncertain and explain which criterion is unclear.

[Paste ten abstracts, numbered 1 through 10]

Save the session as a screening log.

Save all the screening decisions from this session as a note called "Screening Log: Compassion Fatigue Review." Format as a table: abstract number, title (from the abstract), decision, and rationale.

Tips

• Put each criterion on its own line. The rationale gets more specific about which one triggered.
• Name known edge cases in the criteria so Anara applies a rule instead of making a judgment.
• Treat Uncertain as a cue for full-text review, not an automatic exclude.
• Once screening is done, move included papers to the systematic extraction workflow.