Table 3.
Included trials | Random sequence generation | Allocation concealment | Blinding of participants and personnel | Blinding of outcome assessment | Incomplete outcome data | Selective reporting | Other sources of bias | Risk of bias |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wang et al., 1998 [63] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | No | Unclear | High |
Ren and Zhao, 2012 [64] | Table of random number | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | No | Unclear | Unclear |
Fu, 2005 [65] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | No | Unclear | High |
Qin, 2010 [66] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | No | Unclear | High |
Hu et al., 2009 [67] | Simple random sampling | Unclear | Yes | Unclear | No | No | Unclear | Unclear |
Sun and Huang, 2007 [68] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | No | No | Unclear | High |
Wang et al., 2008 [69] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | No | Unclear | High |
Fang et al., 2008 [70] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | No | No | Unclear | High |
Li, 2006 [71] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | No | Unclear | High |
Liu, 2011 [72] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | No | Unclear | High |
Liu et al., 2009[73] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | No | Unclear | High |
Chen, 2009 [74] | Drawing | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | No | No | Unclear | Unclear |
Zhang and Yang, 2011 [75] | Table of random number | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | No | Unclear | Unclear |
Liu and Li, 2011 [76] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | No | No | Unclear | High |
Wei, 2012 [77] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | No | Unclear | High |
Li, 2011 [78] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | No | Unclear | High |
Lin and Liu, 2010 [79] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | No | Unclear | High |
Zhou and Zhang, 2011 [80] | Table of random number | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | No | No | Unclear | Unclear |
Chen, 2008 [81] | Drawing | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | No | No | Unclear | Unclear |
Du, 2012 [82] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | No | Unclear | High |
Cheng, 2010 [83] | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Yes | No | Unclear | High |
Zhu, 2009 [84] | Table of random number | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | No | No | Unclear | Unclear |