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Flowchart of the course of selection of documents in the systematic review of the literature following the PRISMA model. * studies are not relevant for the present review; ** studies do not help us to provide an answer to the research question; *** unable to find the full text of the study; *** Reason 1—wrong setting; reason 2—wrong patient population; reason 3—research question not relevant.
