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. 2015 Oct;22(5):360–371. doi: 10.1016/j.knee.2015.05.003

Table 3.

Summary of study quality according to the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool, with (+) low risk of bias, (?) unclear risk of bias, (−) high risk of bias.

Author, year Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding of participants and personnel Blinding of outcome assessment Incomplete outcome data Selective reporting Other bias
Bezalel et al., 2010 [27] ? + ? ?
Brosseau et al., 2012 part 1 [18] + + ? + +
Brosseau et al., 2012 part 2 [19] + + ? + ?
Coleman et al., 2012 [20] ? + ? ? +
Ettinger et al., 2006 [28] + + + + ?
Farr et al., 2010 [29] + + +
Hurley et al., 2007 [15] + ? + ? + ?
Hurley et al., 2012 [30] + ? + + + +
Jessep et al., 2009 [21] ? ? + + + ?
Kovar et al., 1992 [31] ? + + ?
Sullivan et al., 1998 [16] ? + ?
Mazzuca et al., 1997 [32] ? + + ?
McKnight et al., 2010 [33] + + + ?
Nunez et al., 2006 [34] ? + + ?
Ravaud et al., 2009 [22] + + ? + + +
Thomas et al., 2002 [35] ? + ? ?
Thomee et al., 2010 [23] ? ? +
Victor et al., 2005 [24] ? + −− ? ?
Wetzels et al., 2008 [25] + ? + ? + +
Yip et al., 2007 [17] ? ? + ?
Yip et al., 2008 [36] ? ? + ?