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4.3  Abstract

All full reviews must include an abstract of 400 words or fewer. The abstract should be brief without sacrificing important content. Abstracts to Cochrane reviews are published in MEDLINE and the Science Citation Index, and are made freely available on the internet. It is therefore important that they can be read as stand-alone documents.

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