Table 2.
Quality of the included studies assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment scale (NOS)
| Study | NOS |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selection | Comparability | Outcome | Total score | |
| Sang et al.6 | ![]() |
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8 | |
| Himwaze et al.7 | ![]() |
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8 |
| Yao et al.8 | ![]() |
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8 |
| Mucheleng'anga et al.9 | ![]() |
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8 |
| Dal Ferro et al.10 | ![]() |
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7 |
| Romanova et al.11 | ![]() |
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7 |
| Bryce et al.12 | ![]() |
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7 |
| Elezkurtaj et al.13 | ![]() |
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8 |
| Hooper at al.14 | ![]() |
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8 |
| Falasca et al.15 | ![]() |
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8 |
| De Michele et al.16 | ![]() |
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8 |
| Edler et al.17 | ![]() |
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8 |
| Menter et al.18 | ![]() |
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8 |
| Satturwar et al.19 | ![]() |
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8 |
