2. Study quality (summary).
Study | Selection bias | Patients blinding | Caregiver blinding | Attrition bias | Detection bias | Overall incl. perfor | Overall excl. perfor |
Aswell 2006 | + | ‐ | ‐ | + | unknown | C | B |
De Leeuw 2005 | unknown | ‐ | ‐ | + | unknown | C | B |
Francis 1986 | unknown | ‐ | ‐ | unknown | unknown | C | B |
Fulcher 2005 | unknown | ‐ | + | + | unknown | C | B |
Hermansen 2001 | ‐ (blocks of 4) | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | + | C | C |
Hermansen 2004 | + | ‐ | ‐ | + | unknown | C | B |
Home 2004 | + | ‐ | ‐ | + | unknown | C | B |
Home 2005 | + | ‐ | ‐ | unknown | unknown | C | B |
Kolendorf 2006 | unknown | ‐ | ‐ | unknown | unknown | C | B |
Murphy 2003 | unknown | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | unknown | C | C |
Pieber 2000 | unknown | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | unknown | C | C |
Porcellati 2004 | + | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | unknown | C | C |
Raskin 2000 | + | ‐ | ‐ | unknown | unknown | C | B |
Ratner 2000 | unknown | ‐ | ‐ | + | unknown | C | B |
Rosenstock 2000 | unknown | ‐ | ‐ | unknown | unknown | C | B |
Russel‐Jones 2004 | unknown | ‐ | ‐ | + | unknown | C | B |
Schober 2001 | unknown | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | unknown | C | C |
Tunbridge 1989 | + | + | + | + | unknown | B | B |
Zinman 1999 | unknown | + | + | + | unknown | B | B |
Chatterjee 2007 | + | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | unknown | C | C |
Robertson 2007 | + | ‐ | ‐ | + | unknown | C | B |
Rossetti 2003 | unknown | ‐ | ‐ | ‐ | unknown | C | C |
Vague 2003 | + | ‐ | ‐ | + | unknown | C | B |