Study | Reason for exclusion |
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Becker 1985 | Not acute asthma. |
Carson 1985 | Study comparison was a home‐made spacer vs. oxygen‐driven nebulizer, no commercial spacer involved. |
Duarte 2002 | Study comparison was a home‐made spacer vs. oxygen‐driven nebulizer, no commercial spacer involved. |
El‐Kassimi 1987 | Study included adult patients |
Fowler 2001 | Study included adult patients, and did not include outcomes of interest. |
Henry 1983 | Study comparison was salbutamol versus placebo via a home‐made spacer, no commercial spacer involved. |
Kerac 1998 | Not acute asthma |
Kissoon 2001 | No outcomes of interest in this study. |
Lipworth 2002 | Not a randomised controlled trial, not acute asthma, and absence of outcomes of interest. |
Mazur 2000a | Not a randomised controlled trial, but a review and commentary of a previous published paper. |
Mazur 2000b | Same study as Zar 1999. |
Mazur 2000c | Same study as Zar 1999. |
Motala 2000 | Review article. |
Obgaidze 2005 | Non‐randomized trial |
Quetulio 2004 | Probably some patients included in Quetulio 2002, no outcomes presented in this abstract in a usable form, and no response from authors to request for clarification. |
Rajkumar 2002 | Not acute asthma. |
Samaranayake 1998 | Mixed population of patients (pediatric and adult participants), not possible to separate data from pediatric patients and no response from authors. |
Schleufe 1998 | Not a randomised controlled trial, design more suitable to before and after study. Not acute asthma. Probably adult patients, no response from authors to request for clarification. |
Teo 1988 | Study comparison was salbutamol versus placebo via a home‐made spacer, no commercial spacer involved. |
Vichyanond 1992 | Not acute asthma. |
Willemse 2003 | Study included adult patients. Not acute asthma. |
Zar 1998a | Absence of outcomes of interest. |
Zar 1998b | Absence of outcomes of interest. |
Zar 2002a | Review article. |
Zar 2002b | Review article. |
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