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. 2016 Dec;4(23):459. doi: 10.21037/atm.2016.12.16

Table 2. Methodology quality of the included RCTs.

Study Jadad score
Randomization Allocation concealment Blinding Attrition Score
Liu 2014 1 0 0 0 1
Chen 2013 2 0 0 0.5 2.5
Jia 2013 1 0 0 0 1
Zhang 2015 1 0 0 0 1
Deng 2013 1 0 0 0 1
Ma 2013 2 0 0 0 2
Zhang 2010 2 0 0 0 2

Note: the Silan Chen paper states that two participants were lost in each group, but because no reasons were given, we gave them a 0.5 score for attrition. RCT, randomized clinical trial.