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Thank you for this study. Your search strategy, as you describe for both the database and the strategy for this paper, is limited to articles which contain the (index and text) words 'psychotherapy' and 'depression' (and then further limited by study design as you note). Given that the main thrust of this paper is to compare psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy, would this have the effect of excluding "pharmacotherapy only" trials (to the extent that there are any), and thus reduce the amount of evidence on pharmacotherapy's effect in the NMA?