However, need for therapeutic anticoagulation and risk of bleeding were the main reasons for exclusion mentioned in the CONSORT diagram.
After that, an initial selection occurs based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria mentioned in the "Inclusion and exclusion criteria" section.
However, only one reason for exclusion is mentioned in the table above.
All of the exclusion criteria mentioned above were used in subsequent analyses.
The exclusion criteria mentioned above were applied to the full texts.
After exclusion as mentioned in "Methods", all journals mentioned in the Table were analyzed in the study.
Three researchers independently reviewed the titles and abstracts of the retrieved articles, applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria mentioned above.
The intervention GPs were requested to apply the intervention method on their patients according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria mentioned above.
The title and abstract of all 2997 papers were further screened for inclusion and exclusion criteria mentioned in the method section.
Of the 2,144,006 patients identified with COPD, a total of 1,323,277 patients were included after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria mentioned above and as depicted in Figure 1.
Of the 1190 remaining patients who underwent angiography, 680 were subsequently excluded: 73 patients satisfied the exclusion criteria mentioned above, 363 had nonobstructive disease and 215 did not have disease amenable to revascularization; a further 29 patients refused to participate.
