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. 2020 Jul 6;36:101812. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101812

Table 2.

Quality assessment of included studies.

Study Selection bias
Performance bias
Detection bias
Attrition bias
Reporting bias
Other bias
Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding of participants and personnel Blinding of outcome assessment Incomplete outcome data Selective reporting Other bias
Boonpiyathad 2017 ? + + + +
Clark 1993 ? ? + + + + ?
HERA Group 1995 + + + + + + ?
Kravvariti 2020 + + + +
Lee 2018 ? + + + + + +
Liu 2019 + + + + + + +
Paton 2012 + + + + + +
Van Gool 2001 + + + + + + +
Yokogawa 2017 + + + + + ?

+, low risk of bias; “?” Unclear risk of bias; “-” high risk of bias.