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. 2022 Apr 11;72:103257. doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2022.103257

Table 2.

Quality assessment using the methodological index for non-randomized studies (MINORS).

No.
 Study
 Score
1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 Total
Non-comparative studies
1. Abou-Arab et al., 2021 2 2 2 2 0 2 1 2 13
2. Avdeev et al., 2021 2 2 2 2 0 2 2 2 14
3. Caputo et al., 2020 2 2 2 1 0 2 1 2 12
4. Clarke et al., 2021 2 2 2 2 0 2 1 1 10
5. Elharr et al., 2020 2 2 2 2 0 2 1 1 12
6. Fazzini et al., 2021 2 2 2 1 0 2 0 2 11
7. Gad, 2021 2 2 2 1 0 2 1 2 12
8 Mittermaier et al., 2020 2 1 2 2 0 2 0 2 11
9. Paternoster et al., 2020 2 1 2 2 0 2 2 2 13
10. Sartini et al., 2020 2 2 2 1 0 2 1 1 11
11 Taboada et al., 2020 2 2 2 2 0 0 2 2 12
12. Taboada et al., 2020 2 2 2 2 0 0 2 1 11
13. Thompson et al., 2020 2 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 9
14 Zang, et al., 2020 2 1 2 1 0 0 2 1 9
15. Ziehr et al., 2020 2 2 2 2 0 2 1 1 12

Note: The items are scored 0 (not reported), 1 (reported but inadequate) or 2 (reported and adequate). For non-comparative studies, the scores are as follows: 0–4 very low quality, 5–8: low quality, 9–12: moderate quality, and 13–16: high quality.