Table 4 Exclusion coding schema for abstract reviews
From: Chylothorax in thyroid surgery: a very rare case and systematic review of the literature
1 | Other Language than English, Spanish, Italian, French or German | Manuscript is not in English, Spanish, Italian, French or German |
2 | Animal-surgery | Only human patient data |
3 | No thyroid surgery | No reasonable prospect that the study includes data about thyroid surgery |
4 | Chylothorax before surgery | No reasonable prospect that chylothorax is a result of the thyroid surgery |
5 | No reasonable prospect that the final manuscript contains information about complications with possible chylothorax | No reasonable prospect that the study deals with chylothorax |