Eligibility criteria for synthesis by source
Criteria | Rationale for inclusion |
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Papers from systematic mapping | |
| There was sufficient evidence to support a diabetes-specific focus matching the related primary study. Reviews were excluded from the synthesis in order to avoid synthesising first-order and second-order data (primary studies from eligible reviews were included) |
Additional material | |
| Papers from reviews in systematic mapping: resolves difficulties around synthesising first-order and second-order data |
Scottish papers kept on file from mapping: a useful resource for future comparisons between different parts of UK | |
Papers without abstracts kept on file from systematic mapping: as Paediatric Diabetes does not use abstracts, it was important to include papers without abstracts in the synthesis | |
Hand-searches of reference lists of studies included in the synthesis: standard practice |