In the exemplar systematic review about reducing hospital admissions form nursing homes (Graverholt et al, 2014), which of the following circumstances limited the synthesis possible?
A) Too few studies were found about the issue.
B) No intervention to reduce hospitalization was tested more than once with a rigorous design.
C) The nursing homes had poor data available.
D) Hospital admission was defined differently across the studies.

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No intervention to reduce hospitalization was tested more than once with a rigorous design, limiting the ability to synthesize results across studies.

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