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. 2014 May 21;14:281. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-281

Table 3.

AMSTAR rating for included systematic reviews

AMSTAR criteria Use of an ’a priori’ design Duplicate study selection and data extraction Comprehensive searching of the literature Use of publication status as an exclusion criterion Provision of (included and excluded) studies Provision of characteristics of included studies Assessment of methodological quality of included studies Appropriate use of quality of included studies in formulating conclusions Appropriate methods for combining results of studies Assessment of publication bias Conflict of interest (both review and included studies) stated
Al-Darraji
 X
 X
 X
 X
 X
 X
  
  
  
  
  
DeFulio
  
  
 X
 X
 X
 X
  
  
  
  
  
Hirsch-Moverman
 X
 X
 X
 X
 X
 X
  
  
  
  
  
Lewin
 X
 X
 X
 X
 X
 X
 X
 X
 X
 X
  
Uyei
 X
 X
 X
 X
  
 X
 X
 X
 X
 X
  
Zuñiga X   X X   X