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. 2021 Feb 18;13(2):e13420. doi: 10.7759/cureus.13420

Table 2. Risk of bias assessment using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.

Study Newcastle-Ottawa Scale Overall risk of bias
  Selection Comparability Exposure  
Huang et al., 2020 *** * * Low
Guan et al., 2020 *** * ** Moderate
Zheng et al., 2020 **** * * Low
Wang et al., 2020 *** * ** Moderate
Chen et al., 2020 ** * * High
Hong et al., 2020 ** * ** High
Wang et al., 2020 ** * ** High
Mo et al., 2020 ** * * High
Wu et al., 2020 *** * ** Moderate
Zhou et al., 2020 *** * * Moderate
Wang et al., 2020 *** * ** Moderate
Huang et al., 2020 **** * * Low
Colaneri et al., 2020 *** * ** Moderate
Goyal et al., 2020 ** * * High
Ruan et al., 2020 ** * * High
Rong-Hui Du et al., 2020 **** * * Low
Qin et al., 2020 *** * ** Moderate
Paranjpe et al., 2020 **** * * Low
Zheng et al., 2020 *** * ** Moderate
Zhang et al., 2020 *** * * Moderate
Mikami et al., 2020 *** * ** Moderate
Marcello et al., 2020 *** * ** Moderate
Wang et al., 2020 **** * * Low
Cao et al., 2020 ** * * High
Shahriarirad et al., 2020 *** * * Moderate
Suleyman et al., 2020 ** * * High
Khamis et al., 2020 **** * * Low
Zhang et al., 2020 *** * * Moderate
Yang et al., 2020 *** * * Moderate