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. 2023 Aug 28;11(9):2170. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11092170

Table 2.

GRADE criteria for risk of bias evaluation. Green: No Risk of Bias; Yellow: Maybe Risk of Bias.

Reference Methodological Quality Directness of Evidence Heterogeneity Precision of Effect Estimates Publication Bias Level of Evidence Recommendation for Use
Chen et al. (2016) [21] Moderate High
Scher et al. 2013 [59] Moderate High
Pianta et al. (2018) [60] Moderate Low+
Yu et al. (2021) [61] Moderate High
Kishikawa et al. (2020) [62] Moderate High
Alpizar-Rodriguez et al. (2019) [63] Moderate Low+
Chen et al. (2021) [64] Moderate High
Diamanti et al. (2020) [65] Moderate High
Sun et al. (2022) [66] Moderate Low+
Kitamura et al. (2022) [37] Moderate Low+