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Studies of only one treatment modality were excluded, as were those that included unicondylar tibial plateau fractures.

Methodologically weak studies due to significant bias in selection of subjects, such as studies including only cases seen by the investigator for medical-legal review or studies including only the subset of patients who were eligible for a specific treatment modality, were excluded.

No subjects used qigong as a CAM modality and subsequently this modality was excluded from our analysis.

Studies on the splinting, ultrasound, shock wave and other electrotherapeutic modalities were excluded.

The selection process was documented according to PRISMA criteria (Fig.  1) 7. Studies on in vitro data, diagnostics, treatment of the primary tumor, single case reports, and clinical trials on locoregional treatment modalities were excluded.

Our criteria may have led to some modalities being excluded, and consequently to the finding of a lower rate of utilisation than would otherwise have been the case.

Trials with an unbalanced additional modality between groups were excluded.

Overall, among the 952 first-live born enrolled, 24 with no blood sample available (2.5%) and two that could not be classified for infant feeding modalities at Day 2 were excluded from the present analysis (Table 1).

Tests that did not include all available modalities as described above were excluded from the analysis.

Among these discharges deaths, transplants, voluntary withdrawals and transfers either to another modality or another dialysis facility were excluded in order to isolate the patients with RR.

Studies that focused on awareness of screening, or treatment modalities alone for breast cancer were excluded as we focused exclusively on the literacy levels of risk factors and causes of breast cancer.