Illustration of literature search process by two reviewers.
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January 2014
Identify research topic with research advisor USA
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February 2014
Begin literature search
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March 2014
Reviewers read and evaluated RCT Abstracts
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Some RCT's excluded due to methodology
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September 2014
Further evaluation of RCT Full-text
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Some RCT's removed due to further examination of methodologies.
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April 2015
RCT search terminated. Data extraction initiated.
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June 2015
Data entered into RevMan 5.1
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August 2015
Results analyzed. Conclusion formed.
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