Table 1 PCOS-T table summarizing inclusion and exclusion criteria
From: Burden of disease attributable to risk factors in European countries: a scoping literature review
Inclusion | Exclusion | |
|---|---|---|
Population | GBD European region countries (45 countries from Western, Central and Eastern Europe) | Non- GBD European region countries |
Outcomes | Burden of disease methodology and calculations information related to comparative risk assessments and attributable burden | Non burden of disease outcomes; definition of “years of life lost” different from the one indicated in Murray (1994) [12] |
Study design | National and local burden of disease studies, global burden of disease studies | Non-burden of disease studies, non-observational studies (e.g. clinical trials or interventional studies); publications not including methodological information (e.g. conference abstracts) |
Time frame | 1990 to present | Before 1990 (DALYs got introduced in the 1990s, before there were already several studies on “years of life lost”) |