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. 2020 Jan 21;9(2):296. doi: 10.3390/jcm9020296

Table 5.

Risk of bias summary according to the Cochrane risk of bias tool.

Study Selection Bias Performance Bias Detection Bias Attrition Bias Reporting Bias Quality
Random Sequence Generation Allocation Concealment Blinding of Participants and Personnel Blinding of Outcome Assessment Incomplete Outcome Data Addressed Selective Reporting
Boers et al. [13] + + + + Good
Fontes-Villalba et al. [16] a + + + + Good
Jönsson et al. [9] a + + + + Good
Lindeberg et al. [17] + + ? + Good
Masharani et al. [18] ? + + Fair

a Studies conducted on the same population; + low risk; ? unclear risk; − high risk.