Table 4. Authors' assessment of risk bias.
Sequence generation (random) | Concealment of allocation | Participants blinded | Outcome of blinding | Outcome data incomplete | Selective reporting | |
Moyes et al [7] | - | - | - | - | - | ? |
El Shazly et al [8] | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Alter et al [9] | - | - | - | - | + | + |
Mubarak et al [10] | - | - | - | - | ? | - |
Cohen et al [11] | - | - | - | - | + | + |
Gonzalez et al [12] | - | - | - | - | + | + |
Mitchell et al [13] | - | - | - | - | ? | - |
Swiontkowski et al [14] | - | - | - | - | + | ? |
Ignis et al [16] | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Andreason et al [3] | - | - | - | - | + | - |
Chambers et al [15] | - | - | - | - | + | ? |