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Teaching Case — The Same Count Stated Twice

A number edited in one place and left in another. The first statement is the one drawn and the one checked, and the second is reported rather than silently preferred — the previous renderer let the LAST statement win, so a document like this was drawn from a number the reader had already scrolled past, with nothing anywhere saying which of the two it used. Which of the two is right is not something an engine can decide, so it does not try.

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Telemedicine in rural primary care — review1,005 records identified · 2 exclusion reasonsIdentificationScreeningEligibilityIncludedRecords identified from:n = 1,005Databases: 980 · Registers: 25Records removed before screeningn = 220Duplicates removed: 190Excluded by automation: 30Records screened (title / abstract)n = 785Records excluded by reviewern = 590Reports sought for retrievaln = 195Reports not retrievedn = 9Reports assessed for eligibilityn = 186Reports excluded:n = 118Not rural: n = 70No telemedicine component: n = 48Studies included in reviewn = 681 thing is probably not what was meant; the arithmetic itself balances.WARN`duplicates` is stated twice. The first statement (190) is the one drawn and the one checked; the second (205) is ignored. Delete one of them — which ofthe two is right is not something this engine can decide.OKAll 10 stated counts are whole numbers of records.OKIdentification balances: 980 + 25 − 190 − 30 = 785 `title_screened`.OKScreening balances: 785 − 590 = 195 `abstracts_sought`.OKRetrieval balances: 195 − 9 = 186 `fulltext_assessed` (`other_sought` and `other_unavailable` are not stated and read as zero).OKEligibility balances: 186 − 118 = 68 `studies_included`.OKThe funnel descends: all 3 stage-to-stage comparisons hold — no count is larger than the one before it.OKAll 2 exclusion reasons are named and distinct, accounting for 118 reports.

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title "Telemedicine in rural primary care — review"

db_records 980
register_records 25
duplicates 190
excluded_auto 30

title_screened 785
title_excluded 590

abstracts_sought 195
abstracts_unavailable 9

fulltext_assessed 186
exclude_reason "Not rural" 70
exclude_reason "No telemedicine component" 48

duplicates 205

studies_included 68