Table 4.
Representativeness of Exposed Cohort | Selection of Non-Exposed Cohort | Ascertainment of Intervention | Demonstrate Outcome Assessed before Intervention | Comparability of Cohorts on the Basis of Design or Analysis | Assessment of Outcome | Follow-Up Long Enough | Adequacy of Follow-Up | Data available (No Missing Data) | Total | |
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Janeczko et al. [13] | * | * | * | * | * | * | 6 | |||
Song et al. [11] | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | ||||
Korpela et al. [9] | * | * | * | * | * | * | 6 | |||
Marselle et al. [10] | * | * | * | * | * | * | 6 | |||
Iwata et al. [21] | * | * | * | 3 | ||||||
Gotink et al. [14] | * | * | * | * | * | * | 6 | |||
Shin et al. [12] | * | * | * | * | * | 5 |