Abstracts of the short-listed citations were read to identify articles of probable relevance (articles that might report expression of multiple genes in mammalian testis or its cell types).
The abstracts and titles of retrieved citations were then reviewed for relevance and potentially relevant articles were reviewed for inclusion criteria.
Illustrating how we have grown over the intervening 60 years, though not detracting from its relevance, the article about the selection of Tom Williams as Yale's coach was treated properly as a significant item in the sports section.
Though drafted in 1948, nearly seventy years on the relevance of Article 18 is growing.
Full manuscripts of potentially relevant articles were ordered and two researchers independently assessed the relevance of each article using the criteria stated above.
The terms 'therapy' and 'surgery' were used to filter the results based on relevance, after which, 2230 articles were returned and scrutinised for relevant articles.
The principal objective of this study therefore, was to measure the proportion, quality and relevance of articles for the most common cancer types.
After screening titles and abstracts for relevance, 12 articles were assessed further for eligibility.
Regardless of clinical relevance, 25 articles reported on NTM isolates from pulmonary samples (4 – 17, 17 – 25, 25 – 33 ).
Discrepancies in opinions about the relevance of articles will be resolved through discussion among the project team.
