Full text analysis to decide on inclusion/exclusion was subsequently performed by two reviewers and Cohen's Kappa was used as the measure of agreement.
Of the papers that were found eligible based on title and abstract screening, full text was reviewed to further decide on suitability for inclusion in this study.
If there was any doubt, the full text of the article was assessed to decide whether it met these criteria.
The full text of the retrieved articles was scrutinized to decide whether information on the topic of interest was included.
From the selected articles, the full texts were reviewed to decide their eligibility for inclusion.
The full text of studies selected for step 2 were then evaluated to decide on their eligibility.
We retrieved full text articles for all those references where we are unable to decide on eligibility based on the title and abstract alone.
A priori we decided to include all articles recommended by either reviewer for full text retrieval.
Last year, Chambers decided to stop endorsing the widely denounced practice of gay "reparative therapy". The full text of his personal apology is available here.
It was decided to evaluate the inclusion of the SERENE and LITHE studies in sensitivity analyses in anticipation of the full text publications.
