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. 2021 Apr 17;10(8):1750. doi: 10.3390/jcm10081750

Table 2.

Quality assessment of all included systematic reviews using AMSTAR 2.

Study ID 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Rating Overall Confidence *
Moura (2018) [9] Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Critically low
Kim (2018) [10] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Moderate
Lu (2018) [11] Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Low
Ma (2018) [18] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Low
Li (2017) [19] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Moderate
Zhang (2017) [20] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Low
Cao (2010) [21] No No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Critically low
Cao (2012) [22] No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Critically low
Lee (2010a) [23] Yes No No Yes No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No-MA No-MA Yes No-MA No-MA Yes Critically low
Seo (2018) [24] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No No Low
Xing (2020) [17] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Moderate
Xiao (2020) [25] Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Moderate
Yang (2020) [26] Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Low

AMSTAR 2: A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews 2; No-MA: No meta-analysis conducted. 1. components of PICO/2. established prior to the conduct of the review/3. explain their selection of the study designs/4. comprehensive search/5. duplicate selection/6. duplicate extraction/7. list of excluded studies and justify the exclusions/8. describe the included studies in adequate detail/9. use a satisfactory technique for assessing the risk of bias (RoB)/10. report on the sources of funding/11. use appropriate methods for statistical combination of results/12. assess the potential impact of RoB in individual studies on the results/13. account for RoB in individual studies when interpreting/discussing the results of the review?/14. Did the review authors provide a satisfactory explanation for, and discussion of, any heterogeneity observed in the results of the review/15. Publication bias assessed/16. Include conflict of interest * AMSTAR2 was used to critically appraise the reporting quality of each included SR. The overall confidence of each SR was graded as “high”, “moderate”, “low” or “critically low”.