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Specific Selection and Exclusion Criteria
| Selection criteria | - minimum study size: 20 patients for patient series, where no multivariate analysis was used to identify prognostic factors for a relevant outcome measure. - minimum study size: 35 patients for patient series, with multivariate analysis of possible predictive variables for the effect - minimum number of participants of studies with a direct comparative design: 20 per study arm. |
