Flowchart for the selection of included trials. 

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Context 1

... used many logic combinations of keywords and text words to search the Pubmed, Embase and Cochrane library as well as related interventions and randomized controlled trials till August 2016 (see Supplementary Appendix 1). Also, we also searched the websites manually as follows: Current Controlled Trials, ClinicalTrials.gov and The World Health Organization International Clinical Trials ...

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... the increased numbers of new trials, this manuscript intends to compare the treatment outcome of alemtuzumab with other induction drugs such as basiliximab, daclizumab and ATG in kidney transplant for all RCTs using the Bayesian network meta-analysis [28][29][30][31]. Our study will provide useful information for transplant physicians. Figure 1 showed how we select the required trials in this study. In the original database and website searching we found 4380 records and then we discarded the duplicates, 2630 records were left. After 2443 records were eliminated, then 187 full-text were used for quantification. At last, 23 studies were included in this research [13-17, 19-20, 32-47]. The details of the selected studies were listed in Table 1. Nine studies were identified as low quality (score ≤ 3), and the rest were medium quality (scored 4 or 5) which can be seen in the methodological quality assessment (Table 2). 3444 kidney transplant recipients from eighteen studies were available for network meta-analysis [14-17, 20, 32-44]. Figure 2 was the comparisons structure of the primary ...