Table 1.
Quality assessment.
| Article | 1. Was the Study Question or Objective Clearly Stated? | 2. Was the Study Population Clearly and Fully Described, Including a Case Definition? | 3. Were the Cases Consecutive? | 4. Were the Subjects Comparable? | 5. Was the Intervention Clearly Described? | |
| Gropman et al., 2010 [10] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Samango-Sprouse et al., 2011 [11] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Lee et al., 2012 [2] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Cordeiro et al., 2012 [12] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Tartaglia et al., 2012 [8] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Blumenthal et al., 2013 [13] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Tartaglia et al., 2017 [14] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Udhnani et al., 2018 [9] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Burgemeister et al., 2018 [15] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Srinivasan et al., 2019 [16] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Gropman et al., 2020 [17] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Samango-Sprouse et al., 2020 [18] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Lasutschinkow et al., 2020 [19] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Thompson et al., 2020 | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Samango-Sprouse et al., 2021 [20] | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Lee et al., 2021 [21] | YES | NO | YES | YES | YES | |
| Article | 6. Were the Outcome Measures Clearly Defined, Valid, Reliable, and Implemented Consistently across All Study Participants? | 7. Was the Length of Follow-Up Adequate? | 8. Were the Statistical Methods Well-Described? | 9. Were the Results Well-Described? | Reviewer 1 | Reviewer 2 |
| Gropman et al., 2010 [10] | YES | YES | YES | YES | GOOD | GOOD |
| Samango-Sprouse et al., 2011 [11] | YES | YES | YES | YES | GOOD | GOOD |
| Lee et al., 2012 [2] | YES | NO | YES | YES | FAIR | FAIR |
| Cordeiro et al., 2012 [12] | YES | NO | YES | YES | FAIR | FAIR |
| Tartaglia et al., 2012 [8] | YES | YES | YES | YES | GOOD | GOOD |
| Blumenthal et al., 2013 [13] | YES | NO | YES | YES | FAIR | FAIR |
| Tartaglia et al., 2017 [14] | YES | NO | YES | YES | FAIR | FAIR |
| Udhnani et al., 2018 [9] | YES | NO | YES | YES | FAIR | FAIR |
| Burgemeister et al., 2018 [15] | YES | YES | YES | YES | GOOD | GOOD |
| Srinivasan et al., 2019 [16] | YES | YES | YES | YES | GOOD | GOOD |
| Gropman et al., 2020 [17] | YES | NO | YES | YES | ||
| Samango-Sprouse et al., 2020 [18] | YES | YES | YES | YES | GOOD | GOOD |
| Lasutschinkow et al., 2020 [19] | YES | YES | YES | YES | GOOD | GOOD |
| Thompson et al., 2020 [1] | YES | NO | YES | YES | ||
| Samango-Sprouse et al., 2021 [20] | YES | YES | YES | YES | GOOD | GOOD |
| Lee et al., 2021 [21] | YES | NO | YES | YES | FAIR | FAIR |