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
From: Evidence of the impacts of pharmaceuticals on aquatic animal behaviour: a systematic map protocol
Eligibility criteria | Question element | Screening stage |
|---|---|---|
Uses an aquatic animal  Animal that have at least one phase of their life as obligate aquatic (e.g. fish, amphibian, 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 will be used to assist screeners in deciding whether a compound qualifies as a pharmaceutical compound (Additional file 1: Figure S1) | 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 [40]) | Outcome (O) | Both |
Is in a language in which our review team is proficient  English, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Slovak, Japanese, Polish, Russian | Language | Both |