(P2- Administrative health care professor) Professionals seemed to agree that women should by all means highly trust their physicians, but should also be informed of any relevant proceedings and be allowed to participate in decision making.
We checked reference lists, conference abstracts, relevant reviews, book chapters, and the proceedings of the relevant advisory panels of the Food and Drug Administration, and we contacted manufacturers and trialists.
The proceedings of relevant congresses were also searched.
We will also check reference lists of included studies and proceedings of relevant conferences and contact researchers for eligible studies.
Both the reference lists included in the clinical guidelines and the proceedings of relevant meetings were also considered.
Search strategies included use of electronic search engines for publication databases, searching of reference lists of published papers and proceedings of relevant scientific conferences.
Additional grey literature was examined by searching conference proceedings of relevant conferences (ISPOR and ISOQOL), the clinical trials registry, and by searching secondary references of articles included in the main search.
Studies eligible for inclusion were randomized controlled clinical trials fully published in journals and those identified from other sources (abstracts and proceedings of relevant meetings) for which full details are available from investigators from 1997 to March 2013.
In an attempt to identify any articles missed by the initial search or any unpublished data, we hand searched the references of the retrieved articles and meta-analyses and the proceedings of relevant conferences.
We will also search the proceedings of relevant conferences conducted in the past 10 years, such as the International Health Economics Association conference, and contact key researchers, organisations and companies working in the area of healthcare financing for potentially eligible unpublished studies.
