Table 4.
Quality Appraisal of Non-Efficacious Studies
| Record Number | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frieberger, 201233 | Falls | + | + | − | − | ? | − | − | − | 0.26 |
| Pighills, 201134 | Falls | − | − | − | − | + | − | − | − | 0.24 |
| Karinkanta, 201235 | Falls | + | − | − | ? | ? | − | − | + | 0.2 |
| Zhao, 201636 | Falls | + | − | − | − | ? | − | − | − | 0.08 |
| El-Khoury, 201537 | Falls | + | + | − | − | + | + | + | + | 0.19 |
| Gawler, 201638 | Falls | + | + | − | ? | ? | − | + | + | 0.52 |
| Cockayne, 201739 | Falls | + | + | ? | − | − | + | + | + | 0.12 |
| Vind, 201040 | Falls | + | ? | − | − | + | + | + | + | 0.07 |
| Markle-Reid, 201041 | Falls | + | + | − | − | + | + | + | + | 0.16 |
| Corrie, 201542 | Falls | + | ? | + | − | + | + | + | + | 0.1 |
| Gschwind, 201543 | Falls | + | + | + | − | + | − | + | + | 0.18 |
| Logghe, 200944 | Falls | + | + | − | − | + | + | + | + | 0.07 |
| Talley, 201445 | Falls | + | + | − | − | + | + | + | + | 0.07 |
| Gitlin, 200853 | Other | ? | − | − | − | + | + | − | − | 0.11 |
| Scheffer, 201254 | Other | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | − | 0.33 |
| Beyer, 200755 | Other | + | ? | − | − | − | ? | + | + | 0.22 |
| Wu, 201056 | Other | + | ? | − | − | ? | ? | + | + | 0.2 |
| Metzelthin, 201357 | Other | + | − | − | − | + | + | + | + | 0.22 |
| Kim, 201158 | Other | + | ? | ? | ? | ? | − | + | − | 0.03 |
Note: (−) indicates “high risk of bias”, (+) indicates “low risk of bias”, and (?) indicates “unclear risk of bias”.