Many of the NSP1 and E1 sequences downloaded from GenBank were quite short, and we decided to include as many sequences as possible in the final trees, to show the diverse origin of the sequences.
Some symptoms may have been caused not by the intubation but the subsequent operation, but we decided to include as many potential complications as possible to produce a conservative estimate.
In order to achieve sufficient statistical power for a meaningful analysis, we decided to include as many of the patients as possible who were diagnosed since 1 January 1981.
Not only did he survive humiliation, gunplay and hallucinatory despair through decades of collaboration with the legendarily difficult journalist Hunter S. Thompson, he decided to include as the epigraph to his memoir of those adventures a remark of Thompson's: "Don't write, Ralph.
Sham-operated animals were decided not included as the experiments were completed without complications, haemodynamic stability was adequate (Fig. 1), and veno-arterial ECMO only does not seem to affect intrinsic function of the porcine heart [40].
At the same time, given the relations found between Pre-Task WL and decision-making, we decided to include as factors both the grouped Differential WL and Pre-Task WL in order to determine whether the relations between Differential WL and DM may be moderated by the levels of expected mental workload before the task.
We decided to include SCOPUS as opposed to EMBASE as it is a larger database and offers more coverage of scientific, technical, medical and social science literature [ 3].
As 'educational level' and MMSE were closely related, we decided to include MMSE as a variable for actual cognitive status.
We decided to include these articles as long as they met the quality criteria.
In the original article of Bayliss and colleagues [ 3], depression was assessed as a separate outcome measure but due to its importance in patients with multimorbidity [ 9] we decided to include it as the 22nd item.
