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. 2020 Mar 23;14(8):E363–E368. doi: 10.5489/cuaj.6154

Table 1.

Breakdown of the number of hits excluded for each exclusion criteria

Exclusion reason # of hits excluded
 Duplicate 428
 Broken link 35
 Fundraising/advertising/campaigns 13
 For professionals/primary journal articles 99
 Blogs/discussion boards 78
 Contains links only 14
 Contains only links to other publications 35
 Purely news stories 154
 Search engine/directories 0
 Unrelated/not providing information 199
 Requires subscription 5
 Not English 3
 Not a website (directs to pdf, YouTube video, Word document etc.) 52
 Total excluded 1115