inclusion criteria: everything a study must have in order to be included.
exclusion criteria: factors that would make a study ineligible to be included.
inclusion and exclusion criteria must be clearly defined and must be determined before you conduct your search for articles.
consider:
participants/subjects language
intervention publication type
research design setting
sampling method geographic location
outcome measures date of publication
remember to consider inclusion and exclusion criteria when screening your results.
review your results
prisma flow diagram generator is a graphical representation of the flow of citations reviewed in the course of a systematic review.