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. 2015 Aug 26;10(8):e0136094. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136094

Table 2. Risk of bias according to The Cochrane Collaboration's 'Risk of bias' tool.

Publi-cation Ran-dom sequ-ence genera-tion Allo-cation conceal-ment Blin-ding of partici-pants and personnel Blin-ding of out-come assess-ment Incom-plete out-come data Selec-tive repor-ting Other sources for bias Sum-mary
Ser-retta et al. [2] Unclear Yes Unclear Unclear Yes Unclear Co-authors employed by Astra-Zeneca Unclear risk of bias
Bedog-netti et al. [9] Yes Yes No No Yes Unclear High risk of bias
Fradet et al. [10] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Unclear Funding by Astra-Zeneca Low risk of bias
Saltz-stein et al. [4] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Unclear Co-authors employed by Astra-Zeneca Low risk of bias
Boc-cardo et al. [7] Yes Unclear Yes Yes Yes Unclear Funding by Astra-Zeneca Unclear risk of bias
Ozen et al. [11] Unclear Yes No No Yes Unclear High risk of bias
Van Poppel et al. [12] No No No No Yes Unclear Sponsored by Astra-Zeneca High risk of bias
Tyrrell et al. [13] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Unclear Funding by Astra-Zeneca. Co-authors employed by Astra-Zeneca Low risk of bias
Wid-mark et al. [14] Unclear Unclear No No Yes Unclear High risk of bias
Per-doná et al. [15] Di Loren-zo et al. [16] Yes Yes No No Yes Unclear High risk of bias