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Table 4 Frequency and percentage of trials in the gold standard set that were clearly identified as cluster randomized in the title or abstract, by year of publication.

From: Electronic search strategies to identify reports of cluster randomized trials in MEDLINE: low precision will improve with adherence to reporting standards

Year of publication

Identified as CRT

Not

identified

Total

2000

4 (28.6%)

10 (71.4%)

14

2001

1 (6.3%)

15 (93.8%)

16

2002

1 (11.1%)

8 (88.9%)

9

2003

10 (52.6%)

9 (47.4%)

19

2004

8 (53.3%)

7 (46.7%)

15

2005

13 (65.0%)

7 (35.0%)

20

2006

30 (57.7%)

22 (42.3%)

52

2007

11 (64.7%)

6 (35.3%)

17

Total

78 (48.1%)

84 (51.9%)

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