This effected a small improvements in the F-scores for unstructured abstracts for Intervention and Outcome Measures.
Exclusion criteria were: patients had received previous treatment for eradication of H pylori; abstracts presented at conferences and published abstracts; studies with interventions of different length other than 7, 10, or 14 days; and letters, commentaries, editorials, and reviews.
While abstracts concerning vessel interventions demonstrated a drop in percentages, contributions relating to interventions of the abdomen, chest and musculoskeletal system increased in their relative proportions (Fig. 4).
Information was abstracted on medical interventions for infertility, including fertility drugs prescribed and the number of treatment cycles.
Further examination indicates that patient characteristics such as their diagnoses are often embedded throughout the abstract in the Intervention sentences.
On the more abstract level the intervention – when understood as a breathing space – can serve as a metaphor representing their experiences of the course as both a safe place, as described above, and a space for reflection.
However, in relation to defining SM interventions, the abstract screening tool contains a broad definition since most abstracts have very little detail about the content of the intervention while the full paper screening tool has a more specific definition with specific criteria.
Trials were excluded if they were uncontrolled, pseudo-randomized, published only as an abstract, or if all intervention groups received colloid therapy.
Implementation of the CONSORT for Abstracts guidelines led to a significant increase in the mean number of items reported per abstract immediately after the intervention (increase of 1.03 items, P=0.0035) and a significant change in trend (increase of 0.0613 items per month, P=0.0154).
