Cochrane Austria, Department for Evidence-based Medicine and Evaluation, University for Continuing Education Krems, Krems, Austria, and Department of Family Medicine, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands (L.A.)
Cochrane Austria, Department for Evidence-based Medicine and Evaluation, University for Continuing Education Krems, Krems, Austria (G.W., A.D., A.T., A.C., E.P., I.K.)
Cochrane Austria, Department for Evidence-based Medicine and Evaluation, University for Continuing Education Krems, Krems, Austria, and RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (G.G.).
Acknowledgment: The authors thank Petra Wellemsen for project administration and formatting, Isolde Sommer and Ludwig Grillich for their input on qualitative synthesis methods, Dawn Gartlehner for editing and making the manuscript more readable, and Itziar Etxeandia Ikobaltzeta for her support.
Financial Support: By the American College of Physicians.
Disclosures: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M22-1900.
Reproducible Research Statement: Study protocol: Available on PROSPERO (CRD42020212442). Statistical code: Not applicable. Data set: Data extraction available from Lisa Affengruber (e-mail, lisa.[email protected]ac.at) (28).
Corresponding Author: Lisa Affengruber, MSc, Cochrane Austria, Department for Evidence-based Medicine and Evaluation, University for Continuing Education Krems, Dr. Karl Dorrek Straße 30, 3500 Krems, Austria; e-mail, lisa.[email protected]ac.at.
Author Contributions: Conception and design: L. Affengruber, A. Dobrescu, G. Gartlehner, I. Klerings.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: L. Affengruber, A. Chapman, G. Gartlehner, E. Persad, A. Toromanova.
Drafting of the article: L. Affengruber, A. Chapman, I. Klerings, E. Persad.
Critical revision for important intellectual content: A. Chapman, G. Gartlehner, G. Wagner.
Final approval of the article: L. Affengruber, A. Chapman, A. Dobrescu, G. Gartlehner, I. Klerings, E. Persad, A. Toromanova, G. Wagner.
Obtaining of funding: G. Gartlehner.
Administrative, technical, or logistic support: L. Affengruber, A. Dobrescu, E. Persad.
Collection and assembly of data: L. Affengruber, A. Chapman, A. Dobrescu, I. Klerings, E. Persad, A. Toromanova, G. Wagner.
This article was published at Annals.org on 24 January 2023.
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