Table 8.
Risk of bias for full-text papers
Paper | Internal validity | External validity | ||||||
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Selection bias: representative? | Attrition bias: adequate? | Detection bias: blind? | Confounding: adjustment? | Reporting bias (study group): well defined? | Reporting bias (follow-up): well defined? | Reporting bias (outcome): well defined? | Analyses: well defined? | |
Epstein et al., 2016 [42] | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ | ? | ? | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Regan et al., 2018 [43] | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | ? | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ |
Carter et al., 2019 [44] | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ |
Zuegge et al., 2019 [45] | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Glenski et al., 2020 [46] | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | ? | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
McAlister et al., 2021 [47] | ✔ | ✔ | ✖ | ? | ? | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |