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. 2022 Nov 10;14(11):e31324. doi: 10.7759/cureus.31324

Table 2. Quality assessment overview.

SANRA: Scale for the Assessment of Narrative Review Articles; AMSTAR: Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews

Tool Description Total score Accepted score Studies
SANRA Six components: reasoning for the article's relevance, overview of substantial aims or questions, literature search details, accurate referencing, reasoning, and data representation 12 9 Beccastrini et al. [1], Rivas-Larrauri and Yamazaki-Nakashimada [2], Tsang-A-Sjoe and Bultink [3], Pan et al. [5], Shah et al. [6], Giraldo et al. [8], Catanzaro et al. [13], Connolly and Hakonarson [14], Nagafuchi et al. [15], Edwards et al. [16], Fu et al. [17], Tewthanom et al. [18], Rodrigues and Percival [19], and Mao et al. [20]
AMSTAR Sixteen components: use of population, intervention, control, and outcome (PICO) criteria; deciding the review methods before conducting the review and reporting deviations; explanation of studies chosen for the review; use of exhaustive search strategy; duplicate search; removing duplicates; removing articles based on inclusion/exclusion criteria; description of studies chosen; note on bias in the study; funding sources; combination of results in a meta-analysis; impact of bias by studies in the meta-analysis; role of bias in results; variations in results; publication of bias assessment; and note on the conflict of interests 14 12 Zeng et al. [9]