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This section should provide a narrative summary of the search and selection process results. The number of papers identified by the search strategy and the number of papers that were included and excluded at each stage of the study selection process should be reported.
A complete and accurate report should be provided regarding:
The number of studies identified by the search in diverse sources;
the number of studies excluded after the examination of title and abstract against inclusion criteria;
the number of full text articles retrieved for examination;
the number of studies excluded after full text examination against inclusion criteria;
the number of critically appraised studies;
the number of studies excluded after critical appraisal; and
the total number of included studies.
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The findings of the review and presentation of the results should flow logically from the review objective/question(s). Given there is no clear international standard or agreement on the structure or key components of this section of a review, and the level of variation evident in published systematic reviews, the advice here is general in nature. Typically, findings are discussed textually and then supported with meta-analysis, tables, or figures as appropriate.
The focus should be on presenting information in a clear and concise manner. Any large or complex diagrams/tables/figures should be included as appendices so as not to break the flow of text. Meta-view graphs represent a specific item of analysis that can be incorporated in the results section of the review. However, the results are more than meta-view graphs, and whether this section is structured based on the measurement properties or instruments of interest, or some other structure, the content of this section needs to present the results with clarity.
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