Figure B displays a flowchart describing how potentially eligible records were screened and selected for inclusion in the review. A total of 2,749 records were identified from database searching, handsearches of reference lists, and gray literature searches: database searches yielded 2,516 records after removing duplicates, including 1,709 from MEDLINE, 508 from IPA, and 299 from the Cochrane Library, and handsearches and gray literature searches yielded 99 records. Of the 2,749 records retrieved for initial screening, 2,330 did not meet eligibility criteria and were excluded after review of their titles and abstracts. Full-text articles were retrieved for the remaining 419 records and further assessed for eligibility. Of these, 358 were excluded for the following reasons: 75 for ineligible publication type, 8 for ineligible population, 169 for ineligible intervention, 69 for ineligible study design, 8 for ineligible comparators, 10 for ineligible outcomes, 14 for ineligible setting, and 5 were not included in the report because the review team had not received author responses despite attempts to clarify study elements that would determine eligibility. Following full-text review, 61 articles representing 44 studies were considered eligible for the qualitative synthesis of the review, while 6 were included in the quantitative synthesis.

Figure BDisposition of articles on medication therapy management (PRISMA figure)

IPA = International Pharmaceutical Abstracts; PRISMA = Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses; TEP = Technical Expert Panel.

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