Another 15 patients were excluded at various other quality control (QC) steps.
Al-Maria points out that there was no outcry when Marina Abramović staged a talk from which men were excluded at London's Meltdown festival in 2012.
"The university could not endorse a club from which so many were excluded at birth," she explained.
11 studies were excluded at this stage and 28 studies represented the final seed of studies.
Two patients with fibromyalgia were excluded at the time of enrolment, since the diagnosis may have affected patient perception of the local pathology.
Note, that patients with clearly impaired ADL fulfilling dementia criteria were excluded at baseline.
Four articles were excluded at this stage by scoring <5 out of 7-points with the modified Jadad score.
In total 1115 were excluded at delivery.
Clearly irrelevant titles were excluded at this stage.
However, all were excluded at full text review.
Ninety-nine articles were excluded at this stage.
