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Data extraction and synthesis

GS Gustavo Figueiredo da Silva
BL Bruno Mattei Lopes
VM Vinicius Moser
LF Leslie Ecker Ferreira
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In the primary literature search, a total of 290 articles were found: 178 in SCOPUS, 104 in MEDLINE/Pubmed, 5 in Cochrane, 2 articles in LILACS, and 1 in SCIELO. Of those, 19 were duplicated. Hence, 271 articles were screened for reading of title and abstract, 216 of which were excluded for not meeting our inclusion criteria.

In the next step, the authors independently reviewed 65 full-text articles. Then, 44 articles were excluded for not meeting our inclusion criteria. So, in the end, 21 articles were included in the present systematic review ( Figure 1 ).

Flowchart of selected articles.

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