Authors | Albores-Gallo et al. [50] | Ben-Sasson and Carter [13] | Beuker et al. [51] | Canal-Bedia et al. [53] | Carakovac et al. [56] | Fombonne et al. [49] | Kamio et al. [47] | Kamio et al. [46] | Kara et al. [57] | Kondolot et al. [55] |
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Quality assessment criteria | ||||||||||
1. Question/objective sufficiently described | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
2. Study design evident and appropriate | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3. Method of subject/comparison group selection or source of information/input variables described and appropriate | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
4. Subject (and comparison group, if applicable) characteristics sufficiently described | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
5. If interventional and random allocation was possible, was it described? | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
6. If interventional and blinding of investigators was possible, was it reported? | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
7. If interventional and blinding of subjects was possible, was it reported? | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
8. Outcome and (if applicable) exposure measure(s) well defined and robust to any measurement/misclassification bias. Means of assessment reported | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
9. Sample size appropriate | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
10. Analytical methods described/justified and appropriate | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
11. Some estimate of variance is reported for the main results | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
12. Controlled for confounding | 2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1 | 2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
13. Results reported in sufficient detail | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Total sum = (number of “yes” *2) + (number of “partials” * 1) | 18 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 16 |
Total possible sum = 28 − (number of “N/A” * 2) | 22 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
Summary score: total sum/total possible sum | 0.82 | 0.80 | 0.80 | 0.80 | 0.64 | 0.68 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.80 |
Authors | Mohammed (2012) | Mohammadian et al. [45] | Nygren et al. [54] | Perera et al. [53] | Perera et al. [19] | Samadi and McConkey [7] | Seif Eldin et al. [42] | Seung et al. [48] | Wong et al. [44] |
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Quality assessment criteria | |||||||||
1. Question/objective sufficiently described | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
2. Study design evident and appropriate | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
3. Method of subject/comparison group selection or source of information/input variables described and appropriate | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
4. Subject (and comparison group, if applicable) characteristics sufficiently described | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
5. If interventional and random allocation was possible, was it described? | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
6. If interventional and blinding of investigators was possible, was it reported? | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
7. If interventional and blinding of subjects was possible, was it reported? | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
8. Outcome and (if applicable) exposure measure(s) well defined and robust to any measurement/misclassification bias. Means of assessment reported | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
9. Sample size appropriate | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
10. Analytical methods described/justified and appropriate | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
11. Some estimate of variance is reported for the main results | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
12. Controlled for confounding | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1 | N/A | 2 | N/A | 2 |
13. Results reported in sufficient detail | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Total sum = (number of “yes” *2) + (number of “partials” * 1) | 17 | 16 | 18 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 19 |
Total possible sum = 28 − (number of “N/A” * 2) | 22 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 20 | 22 | 20 | 22 |
Summary score: total sum/total possible sum | 0.77 | 0.80 | 0.90 | 0.60 | 0.77 | 0.75 | 0.64 | 0.80 | 0.86 |