Supplementary Table 6.
Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) Criteria for Studies Included in the Meta-Analysis of Case Control Studies Comparing Serologic Response After 2 Doses of Messenger RNA Vaccine to Controls
No. of participants | Starting level of evidence | Quality assessment |
Reasons to increase level of evidence (large magnitude of effect; dose-response gradient; potential confounding) | Overall quality of evidence | ||||
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Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Publication bias | ||||
1188 (cases) and 499 (controls) | Low | Not serious | Serious | Serious | Not serious | Not serious | N/A | Low |
N/A, not applicable.