Two reviewers (CB, SA) carried out study selection independently and in duplicate in the following stages:
Disagreements between reviewers in any stage were resolved by consensus-based discussion. Reviewers were blinded neither to author names and study sites, nor to the results of the included RCTs. A record of the study selection procedure was kept.
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