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. 2022 Oct 1;12(4):e2022179. doi: 10.5826/dpc.1204a179

Table 3.

Methodological quality assessment of included reports.

Report Mugheddu 2020 [22] Manfreda 2019 [15] Zarbafian 2019 [5] Reddy 2017 [4] Shah 2019 [18] Sacchelli 2018 [32] Apalla 2019 [11] Reddy 2019 [17] Fotiadou 2018 [33] Jeon 2017 [34]
Quality Fair Fair Fair Fair Fair Fair Fair Fair Fair Fair
Report Gonzalez-Cantero 2018 [35] Gottlieb 2021 [36] Kahn 2019 [37] Nagata 2019 [38] Uvais 2020 [39] Vico-Alonso 2020 [40] Melis 2020 [41] Perrone 2017 [42] Carpentieri 2020 [43] Peitsch 2019 [44]
Quality Good Good Good Good Good Fair Good Fair Good Fair
Report Takama 2020 [45] Foti 2021 [46] Di Lernia 2021 [47] Aragon-Miguel 2019 [48] Tampouratzi 2019 [49] Papadavid 2018 [50] Sahuquillo-Torralba 2020 [51] Siciliano 2020 [52] Lanna 2020 [53] Lanna 2019 [54]
Quality Fair Fair Good Good Good Good Good Good Good Good
Report Balato 2020 [55] Queiro Silva 2020 [21] Ighani 2018 (1) [56] Ighani 2018 (2) [57] Ighani 2018 (3) [58] Phan 2020 [59] Ighani 2018 (4) [60] Megna 2020 [61] Del Alcazar 2020 [62] Fremlin 2017 [63]
Quality Good Good Good Good Good Good Good Good Good Good
Report Foulkes 2017 [64] Malara 2018 [65] Daudén 2020 [14] Kungurov 2019 [66] Aragon-Miguel 2019 [67] Bulic 2019 [68] Fattore 2019 [69] Magdaleno 2019 [70] Magdaleno-Tapial 2019 [71] Gioe 2021 [72]
Quality Good Good Good Good Good Good Good Good Good Good
Report Ibarguren 2021 [73] Kurata 2021 [74] Cohen-Sors 2021 [13]
Quality Good Good Good

Case reports have been assessed through the JBI critical appraisal checklist for case reports. Cross-sectional studies have been assessed through the NIH quality assessment tool for observational cohort and cross-sectional studies. Each report has been assigned an overall quality marking of poor, good or fair.