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. 2018 Mar 12;6:e4497. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4497

Table 2. Quality assessment.

First author (year) Selection Comparability Outcome Total score
No. (1) No. (2) No. (3) No. (4) No. (1) No. (1) No. (2) No. (3)
Gann et al. (1975) * * ** * * 6
Melgarejo-Moreno et al. (1997) * * ** * * * 7
Vivas et al. (2010) * * ** * * * 7
Melgarejo-Moreno et al. (2015) * * ** * * * 7
Iwasaki et al. (2009) * * ** * * 6

Note:

Newcastle–Ottawa quality assessment of included studies.