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No living human subjects
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e.g. mice model
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Focus on wrong procedure
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e.g. unicompartmental knee replace-ment
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Focus on risk factors for other complications
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e.g. limb swelling
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Focus on other thrombo-related factors
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e.g. bleeding or blood transfusion
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Focus on fat embolism
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e.g. fat embolism after femoral head resection
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Have not mentioned any risk factor
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e.g. prevelance studied alone
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Not primary clinical research
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e.g. literature review or guidline
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Level III prognostic study
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e.g. case–control
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Level IV prognostic study
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e.g. case series
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Level V prognostic study
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e.g. expert opinion
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Diagnostic study
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e.g. spiral CT for the detection of pulmonary embolism
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Economic and decision analyses
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e.g. cost-effectiveness of extended-duration thromboprophylaxis after THA
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Indispensable data missing or not available
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e.g. no p-value
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Article could not be retrieved
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e.g. not available in electronic or print archives
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Duplicate publication
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e.g. Similar title, sample size ,and outcome data
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