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. 2018 Jul 9;18:223. doi: 10.1186/s12887-018-1205-9

Table 2.

Quality assessment of the reviews using AMSTAR

Study 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Total
Benzies et al., 2013 [30] 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 6
Boundy et al., 2016 [21] 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 7
Brett et al., 2011 [25] 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 5
Evans et al., 2014 [26] 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 4
Goyal et al., 2013 [33] 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 4
Herd, et al., 2014 [32] 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 5
Lawn et al., 2010 [31] 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 5
McGregor and Casey, 2012 [35] 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
Spittle et al., 2015 [34] 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 9
Vanderveen et al., 2009 [23] 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 3
Zhang et al., 2014 [24] 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 4

AMSTAR TOOL Key: 1 = Yes, 0 = No/Unclear/Not applicable. Areas assessed are numbered 1 to 11 on horizontal axis; 1-Priori design provided, 2-Duplicate selection/extraction, 3-Comprehensive literature search conducted, 4-Status of publication (i.e, grey literature) used as an inclusion criterion, 5-List of included & excluded studies provided, 6-Characteristics of included studies provided, 7-Quality of included studies assessed and documented, 8-Use of the scientific quality of the studies in formulating conclusions, 9-Use of appropriate methods to combine the findings of studies, 10-Assessment of publication bias, 11- Conflict of interest included