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. 2024 Aug 25;16(8):e67706. doi: 10.7759/cureus.67706

Figure 1. PRISMA flow diagram summary of search results.

Figure 1

**Excluded article types are those that do not include open-access full-text articles, clinical trials, RCTs, cohort studies, human studies, or studies published in the last twenty years.

MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; PRISMA: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses; PICOS: Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome, Study Design; RCT: randomized controlled trial