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. 2019 Aug 6;54(8):889–900. doi: 10.4085/1062-6050-43-18

Table 2.

Risk of Bias Assessment of Included Studies

Study
Focused Issue?
Appropriate Methodology?
Appropriate Recruitment of Patients?
Appropriate Recruitment of Controls?
Exposure Accurately Measured?
Control of Confounding Factors?
Precision of Results?
Statistics Clearly Reported?
Generalizability of Results?
Results Fit With Other Evidence?
Alfredson et al11 (1998) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Alfredson et al40 (1998) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Alfredson et al41 (1998) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Alfredson et al46 (1996) Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Azevedo et al42 (2009) Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Baur et al53 (2004) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Becker et al50 (2017) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Child et al13 (2010) Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Firth et al43 (2010) Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No No
Grigg et al51 (2013) Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes
Haglund-Åkerlind and Eriksson39 (1993) Yes Yes No No No Yes No Yes Yes No
Maquirriain44 (2012) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No
Masood et al48 (2014) Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes No No
Mayer et al54 (2007) Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes
McCrory et al49 (1999) Yes Yes Yes No No Yes No No Yes No
Öhberg et al47 (2001) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Silbernagel et al19 (2006) Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Wang et al52 (2012) Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wang et al45 (2011) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No