Table 1.

List of records excluded after full-text reading.

Author, year	Reason for exclusion
Ali 2020 [25]	1
Bjorkman 2021 [26]	2
Eldmarany 2020 [27]	3
Irani 2018 [28]	1
Karnabatidis 2021 [29]	3
Katsanos 2012 [30]	1
Moreno-Sánchez 2019 [31]	1
Pang 2021 [32]	1
Patanè 2019 [33]	3
Rai 2019 [34]	3
Roosen 2017 [35]	1
Teo 2013 [36]	1
Trerotola 2018 [37]	2
Verbeeck 2016 [38]	3
Yildiz 2019 [39]	3

1: arteriovenous fistula and graft datas reported together; 2: duplicated datas; 3: not randomized controlled trials.