Table 2.
Assessment of risk of bias.
Study | Sequence generation | Allocation concealment | Blinding of participants and personnel | Blinding of outcome assessors | Incomplete outcome data | Selective reporting | Other bias |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Berk et al. [9] | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Magalhães et al. [10] | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Berk et al. [11] | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Ellegaard et al. [12] | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Frangou et al. [14] | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | High |
Stoll et al. [13] | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Hirashima et al. [15] | High | High | High | High | Low | Low | Low |
Mehrpooya et al. [16] | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Toniolo et al.(2018) | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Marsh et al. [20] | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Chengappa et al. [18] | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Evins et al. [19] | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Brennan et al. [21] | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |