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Table 1 Relative importance of grey literature as used by AcademyHealth in their Grey Literature Project[48]

5	4	3	2	1
Working papers	Data evaluations	Speeches	Newsletters	Pamphlets
Committee reports	Foundation reports	Annual reports	Biographies	Protocols
Testimony	Government reports	Presentations	Bulletins	Guidelines
Conference proceedings	Grantee publications	Grantee reports	Slide presentations	Poster sessions
	Non-commercially published conference papers
	Reports	Webcasts	Foundation financial statements	Meeting agendas
	Special reports	Theses		Translations
		Technical specifications and standards

Items were classified in categories based on a scale of frequency of use (5 most frequent ), and items in columns 5 and 4 were considered to have higher relative importance than the items in columns 3, 2 and 1, which will not be chosen for review in this study.

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