Among them, 18 have been excluded for multiple periods of invasive mechanical ventilation.
Because participants could have been excluded for multiple reasons, the final analytic sample consisted of 1,000 mothers of 523 males and 477 females with complete information at baseline (cohort 1, 290; cohort 2A, 150; cohort 2B, 300; cohort 3, 260).
Some articles were excluded for multiple reasons.
Some patients were excluded for multiple reasons.
Of these, 79 were excluded for multiple reasons, leaving 10 articles for the analysis.
Because citations might be excluded for multiple reasons, we used this above mentioned sequence for excluding citations.
Nine papers were excluded having failed one of the inclusion criteria, while eighteen were excluded for multiple reasons.
If an article is excluded for multiple reasons, only the primary reason for exclusion will be noted.
Of these 1363 infants, 126 were excluded for multiple birth, pre-term birth, cord blood samples unsuitable for analysis, missing data on all chemicals of interest, or unknown sex resulting in a final sample size of 1237.
Upon reviewing 71 full-text articles, 29 (41 %) were excluded because they were not cost comparison studies, 13 (18 %) were not related to chiropractic care, 5 (7 %) were not conducted in the US, and 2 (3 %) were not related to spine pain (note: only the primary reason for exclusion was noted; studies could be excluded for multiple reasons).
Of these, 34 articles were excluded due to methodology (not RCTs, 4 studies), lack of remission criteria (18 studies), diagnostic criteria (not MDD, 11 studies) and age criteria (geriatric, 4 studies) (some studies were excluded for multiple reasons, see Additional File 1).
