Table 4.
Evidence certainty assessment of selected meta-analysis.
| Evidence certainty assessment |
Certainty | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Reference | Study design | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Publication bias | |
| 1 | Bartoszko et al., 2020 [18] | not serious | serious | serious | serious | serious | not serious | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW |
| 2 | Chen et al., 2022 [24] | not serious | not serious | not serious | very serious | not serious | not serious | ⨁⨁◯◯ LOW |
| 3 | Chu et al., 2020 [22] | not serious | not serious | serious | very serious | not serious | not serious | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW |
| 4 | Collins et al., 2021 [25] | not serious | serious | serious | serious | not serious | not serious | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW |
| 5 | Jefferson et al., 2020 [19] | not serious | not serious | not serious | serious | serious | not serious | ⨁⨁◯◯ LOW |
| 6 | Li et al., 2021b [26] | not serious | serious | not serious | serious | serious | not serious | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW |
| 7 | Li et al., 2021a [23] | not serious | not serious | serious | very serious | not serious | not serious | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW |
| 8 | Kunstler et al., 2022 [27] | not serious | serious | serious | not serious | serious | not serious | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW |
| 9 | Tran et al., 2021 [20] | not serious | serious | serious | very serious | not serious | not serious | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW |
| 10 | Yin et al., 2020 [21] | not serious | serious | not serious | serious | serious | not serious | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW |