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. 2020 Jul 16;17(14):5146. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17145146

Table 1.

Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria.

Category Included Excluded
Publication Language English
Study types and designs Systematic reviews, random controlled trials, product pilots/trials (non-random), program reports, news articles describing the use of biosensors by organizations
Publication Type Peer-reviewed articles and gray literature (including program reports and reputable news articles about product pilots) Textbooks, product manufacturer documents such as schematics, patents
Intervention type WASH interventions involving biosensors aimed at improving human health either at a public health (e.g., biosensors used in wastewater treatment plants to evaluate effectiveness of filtration systems) or personal health (e.g., biosensors in toilets in participant’s homes to alert the presence of a certain bacteria) level Interventions that do not utilize a biosensor, do not relate to human waste and sanitation (e.g., environmental/ecological monitoring as the sole use of biosensors, sensors used in industrial wastewater or sensors applied to drinking water) or were not directly related to a human health outcome
Publication dates 2000 to the present Literature dated 1999 and prior