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. 2024 Jul 17;16(7):e64766. doi: 10.7759/cureus.64766

Table 5. Scale for the Assessment of Narrative Review (maximum two stars each) was used to assess the eligibility of narrative reviews.

RCTs: Randomized controlled trials

Author and year of publication Type of the study Justification of the article’s importance for the readership Statement of concrete aims or formulation of questions Description of the literature search Referencing Scientific reasoning (e.g., incorporation of appropriate evidence, such as RCTs in clinical medicine) Appropriate presentation of data (e.g., absolute vs relative risk; effect sizes without confidence intervals)
Wang et al. 2019 [8] Narrative review ** ** - ** ** **