Project goals were (1) to provide a mechanism for lay individuals to self-enter information conveying interest in volunteering for clinical research and (2) provide tools for researchers to select and contact potential volunteers based on study-specific inclusion criteria.
Inevitably the decisions regarding inclusion based on study design will also depend on the availability of suitable study designs in the literature".
1252 patients were excluded based on study inclusion/exclusion criteria; finally 130 patients were included (fluconazole, n = 65; posaconazole, n = 65; Fig. 1).
The judgment of clinical homogeneity was based on study design, risk of bias, inclusion/exclusion criteria, baseline participant characteristics and treatment regimen.
Patient ineligibility may have been appraised subjectively by some GPs rather than objectively based on formal study inclusion criteria.
Participants will be globally screened based on main study inclusion criteria (i.e. physically and mentally able to attend eight weekly sessions and willing to give written informed consent) and exclusion criteria (i.e. current treatment with psychotherapy).
In total we included three studies that were also evaluated in the previous meta-analysis [ 43, 45, 47], as we additionally excluded one study based on the use of 1.0-T field strength [ 34] and one study based on the inclusion of fewer than 10 patients [ 58].
Once eligible patients for the study were identified based on the inclusion criteria, study data was abstracted by four experienced ART prescriber nurses.
