Randomised controlled trials usually exclude patients with suboptimal inhaler technique.
These cases were each screened by neurodevelopmental specialists to exclude patients with known syndromic causes for autism.
Preoperative evaluation should exclude patients with advanced liver disease for whom liver transplantation should not be delayed.
In addition, we exclude patients with systemic diseases or advanced osteoarthritis from surgery.
We exclude patients with severe facial asymmetry or temporo-mandibular disorder.
In order to properly reflect a real-life setting, we did not exclude patients with symptomatic medication overuse.
However, we did exclude patients with early limitation of active therapies, and most admissions were not related to cancer progression.
Lung cancer trials generally exclude patients with comorbidities and current treatment guidelines do not specifically consider comorbidities, so treatment decisions are usually made on subjective individual-case basis.
In order to exclude patients with post-surgical inflammation, patients with incisional intraocular surgery within 3% months of their uveitis diagnosis were excluded.
Although no subject in this study was using opioid maintenance therapy for CH or other conditions, we did not exclude patients with recent opioid use.
Until such studies are performed, it may be prudent to continue to exclude patients with significant cardiac arrhythmia when attempting to use carotid measurements as surrogates for CO.
