Searches of the Medline, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases; PDQ® Cancer Information Summaries, American Society of Clinical Oncology Guidelines, Cancer Care Ontario Practice Guideline Initiative, Interprovincial Drug Strategies and Guidelines Group, and OncoLink Web sites; and manual searches of meeting proceedings and bibliographies were performed.
In case of disturbance, statistically significantly fewer (p<0.001) proceedings of the protocol were performed compared to no disturbance (6.9; SD 1.3 vs 7.4; SD 1.3).
A total of 18 new works were performed during the weekend's proceedings.
Additional searches were performed including scanning of reference lists from relevant papers on chronic hepatitis C and HCC, conference proceedings and the World Health Organization Trial Search Portal (www.who.int/trialsearch/).
Further searches were performed by checking the reference lists from primary and review articles, and manually reviewing abstract booklets and conference proceedings.
A comprehensive and exhaustive search of databases and conference proceedings will be performed by RK with the help of the University of Cape Town librarian, to identify all relevant studies available by 30 June 2014, regardless of language or publication status.
Some hospitals were performing all proceedings of the protocol in the majority of the administration processes, while in other hospitals in none of the processes were all proceedings executed.
A systematic search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, the Cochrane Library, conference proceedings, and clinical trial registration was performed with a comprehensive strategy.
In addition, handsearches will be performed on congress proceedings of the International and European society meetings of feto-maternal medicine, recurrent miscarriage and reproductive medicine.
