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TABLE 2

Criteria

Inclusion criteria
  • The study included children from birth to 18 years of age inclusive; and

  • The study investigated manipulation in a therapeutic clinical context; and

  • The study was published in a peer-reviewed publication or was reported in conference proceedings; or

  • The article was a relevant systematic review.

Exclusion criteria
  • Descriptive studies (ie, surveys) that do not investigate manipulation in a therapeutic clinical context;

  • Studies in which a small number of paediatric subjects were a part of a larger adult trial, and in which the results were not reported separately; or

  • Abstracts from conference proceedings which were later published in the scholarly literature.