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. 2019 Jul 11;25(7):604–618. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2018.0117

Appendix Table A1.

Risk of Bias Summary from Included Randomized Controlled Trials

AUTHOR(S) (YEAR) RANDOM SEQUENCE GENERATION ALLOCATION CONCEALMENT RESIDUAL CONFOUNDING BLINDING OF PARTICIPANTS AND PERSONNEL BLINDING OF OUTCOME ASSESSORS INCOMPLETE OUTCOME DATA SELECTIVE REPORTING OTHER BIASES OVERALL RISK OF BIAS RATING
Neven et al. (2016) + +A ? + Low-to-moderate
Rathlev et al. (2016) +A ? + Low-to-moderate
Ringwalt et al. (2015) + +A + Low-to-moderate

Domain-based evaluation adapted from the Cochrane Collaboration risk of bias table.

 = low risk of bias; + = high risk of bias; ? = unclear; A, not possible to blind participants due to nature of intervention.