“…A total of 24,627 patients were included, including one study with 13,219 patients and only six other studies [19,21,26-28,31,34-37] with more than 500 patients. The number of clinics within studies varied from 1 to 66, with the majority being performed at a single centre (63%) [4-9,13-18,21-23,29,30,32,38], and most involved academic centres (73%) [4-7,9,10,12,14,15,18-24,26,29,31,32,34-39]. Financial support was provided by public funding in 16 studies [4,6,8,9,14,19,21,22,24,25,31,32,34-39], private funding in eight studies [8,12,13,16,19,27,28,35-37,39] (four had both), and 13 studies [5,7,10,11,15,17,18,20,23,26,29,30,33] did not report a funding source.…”