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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Anesthesiology. 2017 Apr;126(4):653–665. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001534

Table 2.

Quality Checklist8 for Included Studies (80 manuscripts)

Quality Category Number of Studies with Quality (% of total)
(1) Monitoring of blood pressure and blood gases 62 (77)
(2) Peer-reviewed publication 80 (100)
(3) Control of temperature 79(98)
(4) Random allocation to treatment 59 (73)
(5) Blinded induction of ischemia 10 (12)
(6) Blinded assessment of (functional) outcome 63 (78)
(7) Non-neuroprotective anesthetic 58 (72)
(8) Pilot data, sample size calculation 28(35)
(9) Animal welfare compliance 76(96)
(10) Conflict of interest statement 27(33)