Table 1.
Author, year, country | Quante et al (2008), Neustadt, Holstein, Germany[42] | da Graça-Tarragó M et al (2016), Porto Alegre, Brazil[33] | Preece et al (2016), Manchester, United Kingdom[43] | Kittelson et al (2014), Colorado, USA[44] | da Graça-Tarragó et al (2016), Porto Alegre, Brazil[45] |
Study description | Case series without control group | Cross-sectional study | Prospective cohort study | Case series with control group | Randomized clinical trial |
Selection bias | N/A | Low | Low | N/A | Low |
Detection bias | N/A | Low | N/A | N/A | Low |
Loss bias | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Report bias | N/A | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Information bias | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |