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Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria
Inclusion criteria: everything a study must have in order to be included.
Exclusion criteria: factors that would make a study ineligible to be included.
Inclusion and exclusion criteria must be clearly defined and must be determined before you conduct your search for articles.
Consider:
participants/subjects language
intervention publication type
research design setting
sampling method geographic location
outcome measures date of publication
Screen your Results
Remember to consider inclusion and exclusion criteria when screening your results.
Inclusion criteria: everything a study must have in order to be included.
Exclusion criteria: factors that would make a study ineligible to be included.
- Examine titles/abstracts
- Examine full text and check for eligibility criteria
- Screen your results by using a tool like Rayyan or Covidence
Review your Results
Review your Results
- Review your results and select your articles.
- Manage your citations by using a tool like Zotero.
- De-duplicate your results.
Review Tools
PRISMA Flow Diagram Generator is a graphical representation of the flow of citations reviewed in the course of a Systematic Review.