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. 2022 Jul 8:1–8. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1038/s41432-022-0257-8

Table 2.

Quality appraisal results

Modified AMSTAR-2 items Alabdullah et al., 2018 Daniel et al., 2013 Estai et al., 2018 Flores et al., 2020 Fortich-Mesa & Hoyos, 2020 Troconis et al., 2018
1 N N N N N N
2 N N N N N N
3 N N Y N N N
4 N N PY PY N N
5 Y Y Y Y Y N
6 N N N N N N
7 N N N N N N
8 PY N PY N N N
9 Y N N Y PY N
10 N N N N N N
11 No MA No MA No MA No MA No MA No MA
12 No MA No MA No MA No MA No MA No MA
13 N N N N N N
14 N N N N N N
15 No MA No MA No MA No MA No MA No MA
16 Y N Y Y Y N
Overall confidence rate Critically low-quality review Critically low-quality review Critically low-quality review Low quality review Critically low-quality review Critically low-quality review

Key:

N = No

Y = Yes

PY = Partial yes

No MA = No meta-analysis conducted