Table 2:
RoB assessment summary
| Article author and year | Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) | Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) | Selective reporting (reporting bias) | RoB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malamed et al., 2000 | ? | ? | ? | Y | Y | HR |
| Ram and Amir, 2006 | ? | N | ? | Y | Y | HR |
| Arrow, 2012 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | LR |
| Alzahrani et al., 2018 | Y | Y | ? | Y | Y | MR |
| Massignan et al., 2020 | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | LR |
| Khanna et al., 2021 | ? | N | N | Y | Y | HR |
| Jain et al., 2021 | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | HR |
?, unclear; HR, high risk; LR, low risk; MR, medium risk; N, no; RoB, risk of bias; Y, yes