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. 2020 Apr;8(8):540. doi: 10.21037/atm.2020.02.115

Table 2. Quality assessment of the studies.

Study Scale
Kudo et al. 2011 4
Sansonno et al. 2012 4
Hoffmann et al. 2015 5
Lencioni et al. 2016 4
Qu et al. 2012 20
Bai et al. 2013 19
Muhammad et al. 2013 18
Huang et al. 2013 15
Hu et al. 2014 18
Takamasa et al. 2015 17
Yao et al. 2015 17
Zhang et al. 2016 19
Wan et al. 2016 20
Lee et al. 2017 19

RCT were assessed by Jadad scale. Comparative studies were assessed by MINORS. RCT, randomized controlled trials.