Table 3.
Quality Appraisal of Efficacious Studies
| Author, year | Intervention Target |
Sequence Generation |
Allocation Concealment |
Blinding of Participants |
Blinding of Interventionists |
Blinding of outcome assessors |
Incomplete outcome data |
Selective outcome reporting |
Other source of bias |
Attrition Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huang, 201114 | FOF | + | + | − | ? | + | + | − | − | 0.05 |
| Kwok, 201615 | FOF | + | ? | − | − | ? | − | − | − | 0.2 |
| Zijlstra, 200916 | FOF | + | − | − | − | + | − | − | − | 0.25 |
| Dorresteijn, 201617 | FOF | + | + | − | − | + | ? | + | + | 0.2 |
| Oh, 201218 | FOF | + | ? | − | − | ? | + | + | + | 0.15 |
| van Haastregt, 201319 | FOF | + | + | − | − | − | + | + | + | 0.25 |
| Parry, 201620 | FOF | + | + | − | − | − | + | − | + | 0.25 |
| Cyarto, 200821 | FOF | + | + | − | − | + | + | + | + | 0.11 |
| Kim, 201222 | FOF | + | + | + | − | − | ? | + | + | 0.16 |
| Iliffe, 201423 | Falls | + | + | − | − | − | + | + | + | 0.34 |
| Iliffe, 201524 | Falls | ? | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | 0.44 |
| Lin, 200725 | Falls | + | − | − | − | + | − | − | − | 0.17 |
| Hwang, 201626 | Falls | + | + | − | − | + | + | + | + | 0.27 |
| Barban, 201727 | Falls | + | − | − | ? | + | + | + | + | 0.03 |
| Duque, 201328 | Falls | ? | ? | − | − | ? | + | + | + | 0.07 |
| Jeon, 201429 | Falls | + | ? | − | − | ? | + | + | + | 0.11 |
| Siegrist, 201630 | Falls | + | + | − | − | ? | − | − | − | 0.21 |
| Gallo, 201631 | Falls | ? | + | ? | − | − | − | − | − | 0.49 |
| Boongird, 201732 | Falls | + | + | − | − | + | + | + | + | 0.02 |
| Patil, 201546 | Other | − | − | − | − | ? | − | − | − | 0.1 |
| Oh, 201547 | Other | + | + | − | − | − | ? | + | + | 0.16 |
| Sheffield, 201348 | Other | ? | ? | − | − | − | − | + | + | 0.33 |
| Freiberger, 201349 | Other | + | − | − | − | − | + | + | + | 0.14 |
| Yamada, 201250 | Other | + | + | − | − | + | + | + | − | 0.08 |
| Pollock, 201251 | Other | + | + | − | − | + | + | + | + | 0.27 |
| Schoene, 201552 | Other | + | + | + | − | + | + | + | + | 0.1 |
Note: (−) indicates “high risk of bias”, (+) indicates “low risk of bias”, and (?) indicates “unclear risk of bias”.