Selection and coverage flow

This page makes the current candidate dispositions and the bounded 2018 archive coverage visible in one place. It is PRISMA-informed reporting, not a claim of PRISMA compliance or a systematic review. The project remains a targeted evidence map and thematic case synthesis.

Current retained-candidate flow

flowchart TD
    A["Retained candidates<br/>165"] --> B["Included reports<br/>112"]
    A --> C["Excluded candidates<br/>53"]
    D["2018 publication pages<br/>379"] --> E["Retained decision links<br/>36"]
    D --> F["No retained disposition<br/>343"]
    E -. "overlaps the retained-candidate log" .-> A
    G["Later-migrated decisions<br/>1"] -. "outside the publication cohort" .-> A

The 165 candidate rows are unique report references retained for a decision; they are not the total number of search results seen across every surface. Every retained candidate has a completed current-pass decision: 112 are included and 53 excluded. include_interim means included in the completed current pass while final pre-submission rerun and independent review remain open.

The 2018 branch is a coverage overlay, not an additional 379 candidates to add to the 165. Its publication-year archive was completely enumerated and extracted, but only 36 rows link to retained contextual decisions (23 inclusions and 13 exclusions); 343 rows do not have a retained disposition and must not be described as documented exclusions. 1 later-migrated report decision sits outside that publication-year manifest.

Search-route accounting

Search routes may overlap before reference-level deduplication; this table counts each retained candidate once under its recorded route. The literal query and surface limitations remain in the linked protocol and audits.

Recorded exclusions

These are the 53 retained candidates with an explicit exclusion decision. Reasons are reproduced from the canonical log rather than retrospectively collapsed into a new code. A future controlled exclusion taxonomy must retain this original detail.

What remains open

• The wider 2019–2026 interval remains targeted, despite the reproducibly bounded 2025–2026 update screen.
• The 343 unlinked 2018 manifest rows require reasoned contextual dispositions before complete row-level screening can be claimed.
• Later-created or migrated pages with 2018 report dates require a full migration search.
• A final literal-query transcript and independent second review remain release gates.

Canonical records: screening log · included-case dataset · 2018 publication-cohort manifest · search protocol · 2018 search audit · validation queue