Criterion | Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria |
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Participants | Healthy term infants under 12 months who meet the Rome III criteria for
| Infants without FGID. Infants with vomiting, problematic feeding, inconsolable or persistent crying and where no statement on the believed underlying gastrointestinal cause is made or where the symptoms could be the result of a non-FGID cause Preterm infants only or studies where preterm infants form >50% of the participants |
Interventions | Any intervention (or no intervention for burden on parents or carers) | |
Comparators | No comparator is necessary | |
Outcomes | Reported treatments of FGIDs and related signs and symptoms (regardless of effectiveness) and the frequency and volume of use
Costs to patients and third-party payers of
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Study types |
| Non-systematic reviews Conference abstracts Letters Comments Editorial News stories Case reports |
Limits | Studies published from 2005 onwards Studies in English Full publications | Studies published before 2005 Studies in languages other than English |