Several studies that investigated Xpert for both pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB could not be included in all analyses because we were unable to extract data pertaining to pulmonary TB alone.
First, not all studies allowed us to extract data pertaining only to pneumonia patients, and therefore a small proportion of the overall aggregate results does not pertain to this disease.
A data extraction form was used to extract details of study design, methods, participants, interventions, findings, data pertaining to area and setting, and quality assessment.
The two papers from the first review using mixed colloids were included [ 10, 11], but the data pertaining to albumin use only extracted.
If studies included patients with RA and other rheumatic diseases, only data pertaining to the RA cohort were extracted.
To obtain the desired information, data pertaining to the patient's were extracted by the researcher from the charts in a systematic way.
Coded data pertaining to each thematic analysis were extracted from the main dataset and reviewed in detail for key emerging findings.
Data pertaining to stress and hormone treatments was also extracted from AtGenExpress.
After a description of the type of intervention of the included studies, from each study the data pertaining to the effectiveness of the intervention were extracted.
Data pertaining to the safety of the intervention was also extracted.
Data pertaining to trial design, participants, interventions, and outcomes were extracted from each eligible trial by one reviewer (TW) and were audited by a second reviewer (EW) independently.
