Appendix 2. Quality assessment of included articles using the STROBE checklist .
|
Author;
(year) |
STROBE score (Reviewer 1: S.B.M) | STROBE score (Reviewer 2: B.V) | Mean STROBE score | Study quality 1 |
| A. Burdorf (1993) |
16 | 16 | 16 | Moderate |
| T. Skov (1996) |
16 | 16 | 16 | Moderate |
| R. Gunzburg (1999) |
17 | 16 | 16.5 | High |
| P. R.Craft (1999) |
21 | 18 | 19.5 | High |
| C. Thorbjornsson (1999) |
19 | 17 | 18 | High |
| D. K. Shehab (2003) |
15 | 12 | 13.5 | Moderate |
| A. N.Sjolie (2004) |
17 | 16 | 16.5 | High |
| V. Yip (2004) |
18 | 19 | 18.5 | High |
| S. Andrusaitis (2006) |
17 | 14 | 15.5 | Moderate |
| V.M. Mattila (2007) |
19 | 17 | 18 | High |
| P. Spyropoulos (2007) |
19 | 19 | 19 | High |
| J. Auvinen (2008) |
21 | 19 | 20 | High |
| A. Karahan (2008) |
20 | 20 | 20 | High |
| B. Skoffer (2008) |
17 | 15 | 16 | Moderate |
| S. Ahn (2009) |
19 | 20 | 19.5 | High |
| F.Tissot (2009) |
19 | 20 | 19.5 | High |
| W. Yao (2012) |
20 | 19 | 19.5 | High |
| N. Aggarwal (2013) |
19 | 18 | 18.5 | High |
| M. Mohseni Bandpei (2014) |
19 | 18 | 18.5 | High |
| P.Mikkonen (2015) |
20 | 17 | 18.5 | High |
| J. Fernandes (2015) |
18 | 15 | 16.5 | High |
| G. Inoue (2015) |
17 | 17 | 17 | High |
| N. Gupta (2015) |
22 | 20 | 21 | High |
| J. Stricevic (2015) |
15 | 14 | 14.5 | Moderate |
| M. Dolphens (2016) |
19 | 18 | 18.5 | High |
| S. Hussain (2016) |
21 | 19 | 20 | High |
| M. Ardahan (2016) |
19 | 15 | 17 | High |
| L. Lunde (2017) |
20 | 18 | 19 | High |
| S. ŞIMŞEK (2017) |
17 | 19 | 18 | High |
| Y. Yabe (2017) |
21 | 18 | 19.5 | High |
| S. Ganesan (2017) |
15 | 17 | 16 | Moderate |
| M. Balling (2017) |
21 | 20 | 20.5 | High |
| S.Ye (2017) |
17 | 18 | 17.5 | High |
| H. Yang (2016) |
17 | 18 | 17.5 | High |
| Sh. Sen Sribastav (2018) |
18 | 19 | 18.5 | High |
| S.Park (2018) |
21 | 17 | 19 | High |
| M. Korshøj (2018) |
21 | 20 | 20.5 | High |
| A. Citko (2018) |
18 | 17 | 17.5 | High |
| S. Celik (2018) |
16 | 18 | 17 | High |
| R. Shiri (2018) |
21 | 18 | 19.5 | High |
| S. Kulandaivelan (2018) |
17 | 17 | 17 | High |
| C. Tavares (2018) |
18 | 16 | 17 | High |
| Q. Zhang (2019) |
18 | 18 | 18 | High |
| B. Minghelli (2019) |
15 | 18 | 16.5 | High |
| T. Bento (2019) |
20 | 20 | 20 | High |
| H. Ayed (2019) |
20 | 20 | 20 | High |
| F. Hanna (2019) |
18 | 19 | 18.5 | High |
| D. Schwertner (2019) |
18 | 18 | 18 | High |
| C. Bontrup (2019) |
16 | 18 | 17 | High |
STROBE: STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology.
1: Mean STROBE score ≥ 16.5 (from two reviewers) was considered as high quality and 11 to 16.5 was considered as moderate quality.