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The three-minute checklist
| Clear study objective/question |
| Well-defined study protocol |
| Explicit inclusion and exclusion criteria for study participants |
| Specified time interval for patient recruitment |
| Consecutive patient enrollment |
| Clinically relevant outcomes |
| Prospective outcome data collection |
| High follow-up rate |
