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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 13.
Published in final edited form as: Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016 Aug;2016:2970–2973. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591353

TABLE III.

Frequency of Qualitative Eligiblity Criteria with Moderate or Strict Restrictions in the Random Sample

Qualitative Criteria Level of
Restriction		 Number
of Trials
(%)
No clinically evident congestive heart failure Moderate 30 (68%)
No myocardial infarction past 12 months Moderate 17 (39%)
No myocardial infarction past 6 months Moderate 15 (34%)
No history of congestive heart failure Strict 5 (11.4%)
No myocardial infarction ever Strict 2 (5%)
No history of stroke Strict 2 (5%)
a

The denominator of the percentage values is the total number of trials in the manual review (44)