Articles were systematically excluded based on the inclusion criteria, to arrive at the final set of studies for review.
Although we cannot categorically rule out selection bias, it is unlikely that subjects were systematically excluded based on outcome (i.e., HRV) and exposure data.
Our findings suggest that there may be other enabling factors that are systematically excluded in analysis on racial variations in health and health care.
He said he was systematically excluded from all meetings on oil contracts, electricity, money, and prisons.
Elderly patients with renal failure have been systematically excluded from most large randomized clinical trials on thrombosis prophylaxis and VTE treatment, as advanced age, age-related renal function impairment, and polypharmacy are potentially associated with bleeding.
When the Supreme Court threw out Thomas Miller-El's death sentence (on the grounds that blacks were systematically excluded from serving as jurors in his case), the court paved the way for it, or a future court, to examine a more substantive question: whether any death penalty trial can ever be a fair one.
Qualitative research reports, case series, editorials, non-systematic reviews and letters to the editor were systematically excluded from the study.
He'd have already been constructing an appeal to higher courts, most likely on the grounds that Maycomb County had systematically excluded blacks from its jury rolls--an argument that the U.S. Supreme Court had become receptive to in the 1930s, overturning several high-profile rape convictions in all-white jury cases.
Three EPIC study centers did not provide any information on breast tumor receptor status and, therefore, were also systematically excluded from this analysis (n = 26,091).
However, if the drop-out process is dependent on the criterion variable (e.g. high scorers systematically excluded), then internal and external validity is threatened and the true relationship between predictor and criterion can no longer be estimated reliably.
