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. 2022 Mar 9;28(4):548–582. doi: 10.1093/humupd/dmac006

Table II.

Risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions of uNK level/activity in women with RM/RIF compared with healthy controls.

Study ID Pre-intervention 
At intervention
Post-intervention 
Total score
Confounding bias Selection bias Classification bias Deviation bias Missing data bias Measurement of outcome bias Selective reporting bias Overall risk of bias judgement
Chao et al. (1995) Serious Low Low Low Serious Moderate Low Serious
Lachapelle et al. (1996) Moderate Low Low Low Serious Moderate Moderate Serious
Lea et al. (1997) Serious Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Serious
Yamamoto et al. (1999) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Moderate Moderate
Clifford et al. (1999) Serious Low Low Low Low Low Moderate Serious
Kwak et al. (1999) Serious Moderate Low Low Low Serious Low Serious
Quenby et al. (1999) Moderate Low Low Low Low Low Low Moderate
Quack et al. (2001) Serious Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Serious
Emmer et al. (2002) Serious Serious Low Low Moderate Low Low Serious
Michimata et al. (2002) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Moderate
Lédée et al. (2004) Serious Low Low Low Moderate Moderate Moderate Serious
Shimada et al. (2004) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Moderate
Lédée-Bataille et al. (2005) Serious Low Low Low Low Low Low Serious
Yan et al. (2007) Serious Low Moderate Low Serious Moderate Low Serious
Tuckerman et al. (2007) Serious Low Low Low Low Low Low Serious
Qu et al. (2008) Serious Low Moderate Low Moderate Moderate Low Serious
Lédées et al. (2008) Serious Low Low Low Low Moderate Serious Serious
Ozcimen et al. (2009) Moderate Low Low Low Moderate Moderate Low Moderate
Bohlmann et al. (2010) Serious Low Low Low Low Low Low Serious
Tuckerman et al. (2010) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Moderate
Park et al. (2010) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Moderate
Laird et al. (2011) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Moderate
Parkin et al. (2011) No info Low Low Low No info Low Low No info
Bao et al. (2012) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Moderate Moderate
Santillán et al. (2015) Serious Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Serious
Mariee et al. (2012) Serious Low Low Low Critical Low Low Critical
Giuliani et al. (2014) Moderate Moderate Low Low Low Low Serious Serious
Junovich et al. (2013) Serious Low Low Low Serious Low Low Serious
Fu et al. (2013) Serious Low Low Low Serious Low Moderate Serious
Wang et al. (2014) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Moderate Moderate
Sotnikova et al. (2014) Serious Low Low Low Low Moderate Moderate Serious
Hosseini et al. (2014) Moderate Low Low Low Moderate Moderate Moderate Moderate
Liu et al. (2014) Moderate Low Low Low Low Low Low Moderate
Gao and Wang (2015) Serious Low Moderate Low Low Low Low Serious
Almasry et al. (2015) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Moderate
Eskicioğlu et al. (2016) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Moderate
Radović Janošević et al. (2016) Serious Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Serious
Chen et al. (2017) Serious Low Low Low Low Low Low Serious
Chen et al. (2018) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Moderate
Jiang et al. (2017) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Moderate
Kuon et al. (2017b) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Moderate
Kuon et al. (2017a) Serious Low Low Low Low Moderate Moderate Serious
Fukui et al. (2017) Moderate Low Moderate Low Moderate Moderate Moderate Moderate
Dong et al. (2017) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Moderate Moderate
Guo et al. (2017) Serious Low Moderate Low Low Moderate Low Serious
El-Azzamy et al. (2018) Serious Low Low Low Low Low Moderate Serious
Liu et al. (2019) Moderate Low Serious Low Low Moderate Low Serious
Marron and Harrity (2019) Serious Low Low Low Low Low Moderate Serious
Marron et al. (2019) Serious Low Low Low Low Moderate Moderate Serious
Li et al. (2019) Moderate Low Low Low Serious Low Low Serious
Huang et al. (2019) Serious No information Serious Low Moderate Moderate Low Serious
Toth et al. (2019) Moderate Low Low Low Serious Low Low Serious
Lu et al. (2020) Serious Low Low Low Serious Moderate Serious Serious
Wei et al., (2020) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Moderate Moderate
Lyzikova et al. (2020) Serious Low Moderate Low Low Moderate Low Serious
El-Badawy et al. (2020) Serious Low Low Low Low Moderate Moderate Serious
Zhao et al. (2020) Serious Low Low Low Low Low Low Serious
Babayeva et al. (2020) Moderate Low Low Low Low Serious Serious Serious
Chen et al. (2021) Moderate Low Low Low Low Moderate Low Moderate
Liu et al. (2020) Moderate Moderate Low Low Low Moderate Low Moderate

RIF, recurrent implantation failure; RM, recurrent miscarriage.