Table 3.

Articles that arrived to the evaluation phase (final step of the extensive literature search) for the QPS status yeasts group (30 articles with 45 studies)

Relevant to the QPS exercise a , b	Articles not describing safety concerns	19 articles (32 studies)	Any methodological problem identified?	Yes	11 articles (17 studies)	Methodology used for identity confirmation of the microorganism	11 articles (17 studies)	Alobaid and Khan (2018); Awad et al. (2018); Bharathi (2018); de Paula et al. (2018); Hasan and Yassein (2018); Kaur et al. (2018); Okmen et al. (2018); Ruelle et al. (2018); Simi et al. (2019); Soman et al. (2018); Treguier et al. (2018)
						Reliability of the source attribution	1 article (2 studies)	Awad et al. (2018)
						Misuse of the microorganism	None
						Predisposing factors in the exposed subjects	4 articles (6 studies)	Alobaid and Khan (2018); Bharathi (2018); Hasan and Yassein (2018); Kaur et al. (2018)
						Other reasons	1 article (2 studies)	de Paula et al. (2018)
				No	8 articles (15 studies)			Arendrup et al. (2018); Ahmadsah et al. (2018); Cen et al. (2018); García‐Agudo et al. (2018); Lazo‐Vélez et al. (2018); Kesmen et al. (2018); Ochiai et al. (2018); Pfaller et al. (2018)
	Articles dealing with safety concerns	11 articles (13 studies)	Any methodological problem identified?	Yes	11 articles (13 studies)	Methodology used for identity confirmation of the microorganism	None
						Reliability of the source attribution	None
						Misuse of the microorganism	None
						Predisposing factors in the exposed subjects	11 articles (13 studies)	Afsarian et al. (2018); Diba et al. (2018); Das et al. (2018); Jung et al. (2018); Kara et al. (2018); Khedri et al. (2018); Nagy et al. (2018); Omran and Mansori (2018); Sadrossadati et al. (2018); Shokohi et al. (2018); Teblick et al. (2018)
						Other reasons	None
				No	None

^aPlease refer to Appendix D for the complete list of references.

^bNumber of references (articles and studies) indicated for each step.