TABLE 2.
Randomization bias (selection bias) | Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) | Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) | Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) | Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Other bias | |
Yörükoğlu et al. (21) | “+” | “+” | “+” | “+” | “+” | “–” | ? |
Yu et al. (24) | “+” | “–” | “–” | “–” | “+” | “+” | ? |
Zhang et al. (15) | “+” | “+” | “+” | ? | “+” | “+” | ? |
Ciftci et al. (14) | “–” | “–” | “–” | ? | “–” | “+” | ? |
Singh et al. (22) | “+” | “–” | “–” | “–” | “+” | “+” | ? |
Yayik et al. (26) | “+” | “+” | “–” | “+” | “+” | “–” | ? |
Goel et al. (25) | “+” | “–” | “+” | “+” | “–” | “–” | ? |
Finnerty et al. (27) | “+” | “–” | ? | “–” | “–” | “–” | ? |
Yeşiltaş et al. (23) | “+” | “+” | “+” | “+” | “+” | “–” | ? |
Zhu et al. (39) | “+” | “+” | “–” | “+” | “+” | ? | ? |
“+” – low risk of Bias (green).
“–” – high risk of bias (red).
? – undetermined (yellow).