Overview of Search Process

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Overview of Search Process (date)
Systems ()
Single studies () MEDLINE CINAHL EMBASE
Summaries ()
Syntheses ()
Synopses of Syntheses ()
Synopses of Single studies ()
Total identified articles ()
Removal of duplicates
Duplicates ()
Primary relevance assessment
Non-relevant (based on title and abstract
screening) ()
Potentially relevant articles ()
Relevance assessment of full document versions ()
Non-relevant articles ()
Relevance criteria 3 ()
Relevance criteria 1 ()
Relevance criteria 2 ()
Total relevant articles ()
Quality assessment of relevant articles ()
Weak articles ()
Strong articles ()
Moderate articles ()
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