Table 3. Risk of bias in the included trials.
Sequence generation | Allocation concealment | Patients blinded | Health care providers blinded | Data collectors blinded | Outcome assessors blinded | Incomplete outcome data | Selective reporting | Other bias | Summary | |
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Birbicer 2007 [18] | Unclear | Unclear | Low | Low | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | Low | Low | Unclear |
Elshal 2009 [19] | Unclear | Low | Unclear | Low | Low | Low | Low | Unclear | Low | Unclear |
Kim 2014 [20] | Low | Unclear | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Unclear |
Yousef 2014 [21] | Unclear | Unclear | Low | Unclear | Low | Low | Unclear | Low | Low | Unclear |
Sridhar 2017 [16] | Unclear | Unclear | Low | Unclear | Unclear | Low | Unclear | Low | Low | Unclear |
Askar 2017 [17] | Low | Unclear | Low | Low | Low | Low | Unclear | Low | Low | Unclear |