| 'Risk of bias' assessment of Joyner 2020 | |||
| Domain | Assessed outcomes | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
| Representative study group (selection bias) | Not available | Low | Large population size, prospective study, interim analysis of first 5000 patients |
| Outcome detectors blinded to intervention (detection bias) | Adverse events | High | Not blinded, awareness of intervention can bias assessment of subjective outcomes |
| Complete outcome assessment/follow‐up (attrition bias) | Adverse events | Unclear | Preliminary results; only serious adverse events assessed, 4‐h follow‐up |
| Well‐defined study group (reporting bias) | Adverse events | Unclear | Study population well described, intervention scarcely described |
| Well‐defined outcome (reporting bias) | Adverse events | Unclear | Preliminary results; serious adverse events only |
| Well‐defined risk estimates (analyses) | Adverse events | Not available | No analyses performed |
| Important prognostic factors or follow‐up taken adequately into account (confounding) | Not available | High | Not adjusted for confounding factors |