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The two reviewer teams completely agreed (κ = 1) on the selection of included studies.
Using a standardised form, the same reviewer teams will independently apply eligibility criteria to the full text of potentially eligible trials.
For many protocol decisions for a meta-analysis where different reviewer teams have acted differently, there is no clearly discernible correct versus incorrect choices.
The same reviewer teams will, following a second calibration exercise, independently apply eligibility criteria to the full text of potentially eligible trials using standardised forms.
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To accomplish screening of all retrieved citations by two independent reviewers, team members (denoted A through E) were assigned into five reviewer pairs (ie, AB, BC, CD, DE, and AE) with each reviewer assigned to two partners.
All four reviewers from the review team were involved in study selection.
Multidisciplinary external peer reviewers: Multidisciplinary review teams comprised of peers and technical experts from an outside organisation are essential for independent, objective, valid and unbiased peer reviews.
