Sentence examples for articles to be excluded from inspiring English sources

The following criteria were used to determine articles to be excluded: Articles published on company Web sites.

Agreement between screeners' determination of articles to be excluded will be assessed and disagreements discussed to achieve consensus.

If the data of an article was also presented in another previously selected article, the article was to be excluded.

However, another 15 articles had to be excluded due to reasons of setting while three additional articles, which had not been found by the database search, were retrieved from contacted authors (See Figure 1).

These were PubMed - 41, Scopus - 17, Embase - 2 and hand searched - 3. Further, a few articles had to be excluded for non-availability of full text.

Further, four articles had to be excluded since full text revealed no mention of orthodontic force (N = 1) or study was not performed in crevicular fluid (N = 3).

Two articles had to be excluded as they each had a quality score of < 0.75.

Most of the potentially relevant articles had to be excluded because of having a non-randomised design [ 24] or comparing two different chemotherapeutic regimens [ 18, 19].

One article had to be excluded or pooled with another because of possible double publication of the same cohort (Grecchi (b) [15]), one article because of missing follow-up times (Hvaring [16]), one because of missing clinical data (Kjaer [17]), and two articles because of missing numerical data (Dellavia [18, 19]).

Importantly, this correspondence led to the identification of additional articles that needed to be excluded because of redundant patient populations (n = 4) (here, we included the articles reporting on the larger number of patients).

The literature searches revealed 88 articles, of which 84 had to be excluded.