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. 2020 Jan;8(1):4–9. doi: 10.29252/beat-080102

Table 2.

Modified Downs and Black scale for assessment of study quality

1 st Author (year) Reporting (11) External Validity (3) Internal Validity bias (7) Internal Validity Confounding (6) Power (1) Total quality score (28)
Hong-Wei Chen (2016)6 7 1 4 3 1 16
Hong-Wei Chen (2017)7 7 1 4 3 1 16
Chengwei Zhou (2018)8 8 1 3 3 1 16
Tao i (2018)9 7 1 3 3 1 15