At the full-text review stage, publications were excluded if they met any of the previous criteria, or, additionally, if they: Did not report a cost-effectiveness measure.
At the title and abstract review stage, publications were excluded if they fulfilled any of the following criteria: Did not report on a strategy that sought to influence health practices or enhance front-line worker performance.
We also tried to use other grouping terms to explore the prognostic role of miR-21, such as TNM stage, publication year, CEA (cut-off value) et al. However, no clinical significance could be found.> -wrap-foot> Abbreviations: CI confidence interval, HR hazard ratio.
ACP has a two-stage publication process [20], [22] that is described on the ACP website as follows: In the first stage, manuscripts that pass a rapid pre-screening process (access review) are immediately published as "discussion papers" on the journal's website (by doing this, they are published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, ACPD).
At this second stage, 8 publications were excluded as they examined medical impacts of a treatment or intervention, and 57 publications were retained.
The extent of exclusion at the full-text screening stage (377 publications excluded from 402) provided the first indication of problems associated with quality of reporting in this research field.
He was involved in every stage of publication, from selecting what was to be published from the 1,000-plus 1,000-pluss he received each year, through to layout and jacket design.
It seems quite conceivable that researchers evaluated associations between alcohol consumption and HIV disease outcomes in their cohorts, but did not pursue these analyses to the stage of publication if the findings were not statistically significant.
Dieter Braun, Systems Biophysics, Functional Nanosystems, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, München, Germany (Nominated by Sergey Maslov) While I am sympathetic to the core idea presented, I cannot support the manuscript at this stage for publication.
We are very lucky to have had someone with such an intimate and meaningful connection to Diana in a position to help bring the book through the final writing stages to publication".
There was no time restriction, and all stages of publication were eligible.
