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. 2020 Oct-Dec;24(4):421–427. doi: 10.5935/1518-0557.20200016

Table 2.

Bias risks of the included RCT

Study, year Domain 1 Domain 2 Domain 3 Domain 4 Domain 5 Domain 6 Domain 7
Moraloglu et al., 2010 High High Low unknown Low Low unknown
Ng et al., 2014 Unknown Low Low unknown Low Low Low
He et al., 2016a Low Low unknown unknown Low Low Low
Hebisha et al., 2016 Unknown unknown unknown unknown Low Low unknown
1

Random sequence generation (selection bias)

2

allocation concealment (selection bias)

3

blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias)

4

blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) (patient-reported outcome)

5

blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) (all-cause main outcome)

6

incomplete outcome data (attrition data)

7

selective reporting (reporting bias)