RS inspected the initial search results for potentially relevant publications, extracted data, and assisted in the interpretation of data.
The number of publications extracted from Scopus was 19,461 for HIV, 9,355 for tuberculosis and 15,173 for malaria.
PB and SW conceptualized the framework to address equity, selected the eventual publications, extracted and analyzed the data and drafted the manuscript.
Each PSI-MI experimental description (which directly corresponds to an individual BIND-condition) contains a bibRef with all the unique publications extracted from the BIND-interaction_source and any additional publications contained in the mapped BIND-condition.
Of the 616 publications extracted from the dementia guideline, 228 (37.2%) had at least one UK-based author, while from the COPD guideline, 148 publications (35.9%) had at least one UK-based author.
For two cohorts we used non-peer-reviewed publications to extract RRs for MM (and NHL) that were not reported in the peer-reviewed publications (Atkinson et al. 2001; Delzell E, Sathiakumar N, Cole P, Brill I, unpublished report).
We used the data presented in the original publications to extract either age-related inclusion criteria or descriptions of the study sample.
We searched for articles on HEV epidemiology in Africa from online databases such as PubMed, Scopus, and ISI Web of Science and critically reviewed appropriate publications to extract consistent findings, identify knowledge gaps, and suggest future studies.
After the retrieval of the selected full text publications and, if needed, of associated publications, we extracted the following details: objective, country and setting, evaluation time lag, conceptual model methodology, main results and conclusions.
Two authors independently scored protocols and publications, and extracted data.
