| Author (Year) | ||||
| Journal | ||||
| Title | ||||
| Risk of Bias Assessment (with quotes and or statement) | High Risk of Bias | Low Risk of Bias | Unclear Risk of Bias | |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) | ||||
| State here the method used to generate the sequence | ||||
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) | ||||
| State here the method used to conceal allocation | ||||
| Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) | ||||
| Persons responsible for participants care | ||||
| Participants | ||||
| Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) | ||||
| Outcome assessor | ||||
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) | ||||
| Adequate, if drop‐out rate ≤ 15% and balanced between arms and reasons for missing values reported, and unrelated to the analysed outcome (data analysis described and imputation methods correct). | ||||
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) | ||||
| Adequate, if a prospectively registered study protocol is available and all predefined primary and secondary outcomes are also reported in the published study. | ||||
| Other bias | ||||
| Other sources of bias (e.g. imbalance in baseline characteristics between study's arms) | ||||