Table 2. Evaluation of risk of bias in the six included studies based on the Cochrane Risk of Bias (ROB) tool[17]
| study | sequence generation |
allocation sequence concealment | blinding of participants and personnel | blinding of outcome assessment | incomplete outcome data | selective outcome reporting | other potential threats to validity |
| N/A, no information available | |||||||
| Zhang 2004[28] | high | N/A | high | high | low | low | low |
| Carrizo 2009[7] | low | N/A | low | low | high | low | low |
| Liu 2012[25] | high | N/A | high | high | low | low | low |
| Chen 2013[24] | low | low | low | low | low | low | low |
| Wu 2014[27] | high | N/A | high | high | low | low | low |
| Hebrani 2015[26] | low | N/A | low | low | high | low | low |