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The study inclusion/ exclusion criteria were adapted and modified from those published previously by the Cochrane Collaboration [ 45 ] and others [ 46 47 ] . Studies included in the review met the following four criteria: 1) the studies pertained to manual spinal (cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and surrounding para-spinal soft tissue but not the sacrum or pelvis) palpation procedures; 2) the studies included measurement of validity or accuracy of spinal palpation, where validity was defined as the capability of the manual spinal palpation procedure to do what it is supposed to do and accuracy was defined as a measure of how well it actually does that (content validity); 3) the studies were dissertations or a primary research studies published in a peer-reviewed journal; 4) the document could be written in any language; 5) the primary research must have been published or accepted for publication; and 6) all studies were made available between January 1, 1966 and September 30, 2002.
First, we reviewed titles identified through the online search, and excluded those which gave no indication that the studies pertained to validity.
At least two risk factors pertained to this patient.
Information regarding the examiners pertained to their selection criteria, sample size, and background.
First, the data pertained to non-manual procedure(s).