After deduplication, the literature search yielded 353 potentially relevant publications, 219 of which were selected for full-text screening. The full text of 5 publications could not be retrieved. We excluded 170 publications based on the full-text screening, resulting in 44 studies for final inclusion [1, 5, 8, 12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52]. Cross-checking the reference lists did not yield new publications. The selection process is visualized in Fig. 1.
Fig. 1
Characteristics of the included studiesThe characteristics of the 44 included studies are presented in Table 1.
Publications from 9 countries were included. Fifteen publications originated from the United States of America [1, 12, 13, 18, 23, 26,27,28,29,30,31, 35, 36, 38, 51], 10 from the United Kingdom [5, 8, 15,16,17, 20, 21, 25, 49, 50] and 8 from Spain [14, 19, 37, 39,40,41,42, 44]. Other publications originated from Germany [22, 33, 34, 45], Australia [47, 48], Switzerland [24, 43], Ireland [32], Singapore [46], and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [52].
Two systematic reviews [8, 14], one guideline [1], and 41 publications reporting original data were included [5, 12, 13, 15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,
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