Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria - What is this?

• Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

  • Applicable guidelines: MDAR, NIH, CONSORT, ARRIVE

  • Statement(s) discussing both the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the experiment.

  • Helpful information for animal experiments from ARRIVE

• What does SciScore do when it finds Inclusion and Exclusion criteria?

  • If we find a statement about inclusion and exclusion criteria, then SciScore expects to find the following items (randomization, blinding, power);

• Example sentences

  • Subjects were eligible for the cross-sectional study if they were fluent in English and had a sexual partner (SP) in the previous 18 months and ineligible if they were post-menopausal or had undergone a sex change.

  • To qualify for inclusion in our assessment of receptive field size, single units had to show a significant change in firing rate (2 SD above baseline)

  • Animals with incomplete lesions were excluded from the study (n = 10).