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. 2023 Aug 30;23:294. doi: 10.1186/s12871-023-02243-5

Table 1.

Summary of inclusion and exclusion criteria. This table summarises the inclusion and exclusion criteria applied to assess study eligibility during this overview

Study Criteria Inclusion Criteria Exclusion Criteria
Study design Systematic review (± meta-analysis) Non-reviews; protocols
Population Postsurgical patients exposed to acute / sub-acute pain (adults ± children) Non-postsurgical patients; patients exposed to chronic pain; paediatric-only patients
Intervention An intervention related to one of either the ten priorities described by Levy et al. (2020) [8] or ten priorities described by Forget et al. (2022) [2] Non-relevant intervention
Comparison A method to analyse the efficacy of the intervention No method to analyse the efficacy of the intervention
Outcome An outcome related to acute postoperative pain / opioid use / relevant clinical outcomes An outcome unrelated to acute postoperative pain / opioid use / relevant clinical outcomes