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However, two [ 22, 23] were excluded because these articles were basic research, two [ 24, 25] were excluded because these articles did not use placebo as a control, two [ 26, 27] were excluded because of duplication, and one [ 28] was excluded because of unavailable inclusion outcomes; hence, five RCTs [ 8– 12] were selected on the basis of our inclusion criteria (Table 1).
But because those articles aren't featured on Science Careers, our readers could easily overlook them.
Because those articles are published on the other Science sites, Science Careers readers could easily overlook them.
However, because the focus of these articles was not on the association between pain and physical function, in most cases we had to calculate the association between pain and physical function (SOR) ourselves.
However, Holmes also mentioned she felt an "obligation to customers to give clear answers," and that "part of what I realized by reading these articles is maybe because we're only in Arizona in a deep way right now, people don't understand what we actually do".
20 of these articles were excluded because of not meeting the eligibility criteria (n = 2), because of being duplicate publications (n = 10), or from inability to access the full text through our institution (n = 8).
Among them, 221 were attributable to a combination of the search terms regarding exposure and the outcome IHD, 178 further articles were attributable to the search terms on COPD and 47 on stroke. 1 After the screening of title and abstract, 307 of these articles were excluded, because they did not fit the study's objective.
In all, 10 of these articles were excluded because an identical patient cohort had been used in other selected publications (Rodenhuis et al, 1988; Miyamoto et al, 1991; Fujino et al, 1995; Rosell et al, 1995a, 1995b, 1996; Dosaka et al, 1997; Keohavong et al, 1997; Hommura et al, 2000; Konishi et al, 2000; Volm et al, 2002).
