Level 1: Inclusion criteria for publications | Level 1: Exclusion criteria for publications |
Species of interest is cats, dogs, horses, cattle or sheep | Not about cats, dogs, horses, cattle or sheep |
Published in 2011 | E published only in 2011 if full publication occurred in a different calendar year |
RCT according to PubMed publication types and the Cochrane definition | Not an RCT (not indexed as an RCT by PubMed or not fulfilling Cochrane definition of an RCT) |
Treatment of interest is a pharmaceutical intervention | Treatment of interest is not a pharmaceutical agent e.g. nutritional, surgical, animal husbandry etc |
Level 2: Inclusion criteria for analysis of pharmaceutical RCTs | Level 2: Exclusion criteria for analysis of pharmaceutical RCTs |
Primary aim is to assess efficacy | Primary aim was not to assess efficacy (pharmacokinetic/dynamic studies, safety studies, physiological effects, resistance testing, testing routes of administration only, testing timing of administration only) |
Identifiable treatment or protocol of interest | Treatment or protocol of interest could not be identified |
Single dose of the treatment of interest used | Multiple doses of the treatment of interest used/dose finding studies |
Published in English | Not available in English |