Characteristics of excluded studies
| Amirova 1991 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Included non-traumatic hyphema cases in trial and could not determine outcomes in traumatic hyphema cases separately; the method of choosing the control group was not mentioned |
| Anderson 1971 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, case reports |
| Berrios 1995 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Review of traumatic hyphema, no original data |
| Bramsen 1977 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, used historical controls |
| Bramsen 1980 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Review of previously published studies, no original data |
| Dralands 1981 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, used historical controls |
| Gastaldi 1970 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Review of treatments for traumatic hyphema, no original data |
| Ghisolfi 1972 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Included non-traumatic hyphema cases in trial and could not determine outcomes in traumatic hyphema cases separately |
| Gilbert 1973 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, used historical controls |
| Gillan 1961 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, used historical controls |
| Goldberg 1960 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, cohort study using chart review |
| Gundorova 1985 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial. There were only 3 patients with post-traumatic hyphema and no obvious control group was defined |
| Heath 1966 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, case reports |
| Kotas 1990 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, case report |
| Krasnov 1971 | |
| Reason for exclusion | There were only 6 patients with post-traumatic hyphema without surgery or penetrating injuries; patients with different types of glaucoma were classified and treated with glycerin alone or with glycerin and thromboplatin accordingly |
| Latinovic 1981 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Interventional case series, no control group |
| Li 2009 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, cohort study |
| Mathis 1987 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, case reports |
| Missotten 1977 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, used historical controls |
| Mortensen 1978 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, used historical controls |
| Munoz Negrete 1989 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Interventional case series, no control group |
| Murzin 1966 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, appears to be without a control group and the author tested two different drugs in various combinations for various types of bleeds in the eye which occurred at various times before the onset of treatment |
| Ohrstrom 1972 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, cohort study |
| Oksala 1967 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, cohort study |
| Pierse 1964 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, case reports |
| Polychronakos 1967 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, case reports |
| Rakusin 1971 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not eligible, surgical interventions |
| Romano 1986 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Review of steroids for the treatment of traumatic hyphema, no original data |
| Romashchenko 1985 | |
| Reason for exclusion | There were 3 groups of patients with bleeds in the eye: Group 1 was a mix of post- traumatic and post-operative hyphemas (no clear group with post-traumatic hyphemas); the control group was taken from a retrospective study of case notes from 1979 to 1981 and those patients had received an entirely different set of drugs as treatment for their bleeds in the eye |
| Spoor 1990 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, cohort study |
| Stepanov 2002 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, no control group |
| Surel 1987 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, used historical controls |
| Tartakovskaia 1972 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, no control group |
| Uusitalo 1988 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, used historical controls |
| Watkins 1974 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, animal study and case reports |
| Welsh 1971 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, case reports |
| Williams 1993 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, interventional case series |
| Wilson 1990 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, cohort study |
| Wright 1964 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Included non-traumatic hyphema cases in trial and could not determine outcomes in traumatic hyphema cases separately |
| Yasuna 1974 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, used historical controls |
| Zhou 1982 | |
| Reason for exclusion | Not a clinical trial, groups were selected based on severity of injury |