Table 1 Eligibility criteria associated question element (i.e. PECO element or other criteria such as language) and the screening stage at which it applies, title and abstract, full text or both
Eligibility criteria | Question element | Screening stage |
|---|---|---|
Uses an aquatic animal. Animals that have at least one phase of their life as obligate aquatic (e.g. fish, amphibia, aquatic mammal, aquatic invertebrate) | Population (P) | Both |
Uses a wild type animal An animal that is not genetically modified | Population (P) | Full text |
Uses at least one pharmaceutical compound A decision tree was used to assist screeners in deciding whether a compound qualifies as a pharmaceutical compound (Figure iS1) | Exposure (E) | Both |
Has a control group A non-exposed group to which the exposed group is compared and is therefore not a review, meta-analysis, conference proceeding etc. | Comparator (C) | Both |
Measures behaviour An organism’s kinematic response, or lack of kinematic response (e.g. freezing, resting), to an internal or external stimulus (e.g. foraging in response to hunger [internal] or food [external] stimuli) | Outcome (O) | Both |
Is in a language in which our review team is proficient: English, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Slovak, Japanese, Polish, Russian | Language | Both |