A total of 217 patients out of the 293 records from the main database were located in the hospital database, corresponding to 74% of the total.
The number of subjects truly lost to follow-up, that is, whom we can no longer locate in the databases, is tiny: 107, or approximately 0.5% [ 9].
Primate RNase 7 and RNase 8 sequences are located in the GenBank database under accession numbers AF473854- AF473863.
17 Each drug's 2012 FDA approval package was located in the Drugs@FDA database.
Of these, three reported using the Service Provision Assessment (Hong et al. 2006; Agha and Do 2009; Cherlin et al. 2011) and one reported using the Health Facility Census (Gabrysch et al. 2011); both of these tools were also located in the IHFAN database.
Once the documents were located in the various databases, we proceeded to eliminate duplicates and those that were not relevant to the objectives of our study.
The search strategy also included the use of truncated and wild card forms of the above, and secondary searching of the reference lists of studies located in the above databases.
To check for phylogenetic relationships among the different PAL genes, 48 gene sequences located in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) database and The Institute for Genomic Research TIGRR) annotated database were aligned.
ED visits with a diagnosis of meningococcal disease in the ED data collection that were not located in the notifiable diseases database were classified as false positives.
Finally, a Nematostella vectensis homolog [ EDO38290] was located in the JGI genome database http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Nemve1/Nemve1.home.html using conserved motifs from the Oculina sequence as a BLASTX query.
Only four studies located in the medical literature databases reported using a standardized assessment tool thereby meeting the inclusion criteria.
