Table 3 Reasons for exclusion of reports identified in the initial screening process as potentially relevant
Reason for exclusion | Number of Reports |
|---|---|
Diarrhoea status of participants | Â |
Included children with acute diarrhoea only | 9 |
Wrong definition of persistent diarrhoea | 2 |
Asymptomatic children only | 1 |
Included all children in a community, whether or not they had diarrhoea | 2 |
No separate analysis for cases of acute and persistent diarrhoea | 41 |
Other participant characteristics | Â |
Participants were of the wrong age range | 8 |
Participants resided in a high income country | 3 |
Study design factors | Â |
Less than 30 participants | 5 |
Faecal samples taken in the acute stage (before day 14) of the persistent episode | 5 |
Tested for one organism only | 4 |
Sampled only children who had been in close contact with Shigella dysentery | 1 |
Reviewed hospital records only for children found positive for enteric pathogens | 1 |
Not relevant | Â |
No data on frequency of pathogens presented | 5 |