Table 1. | Risk of bias table |
| Study | Year of publication |
Random sequence generation |
Allocation concealment |
Blinding of participants and personnel |
Blinding of outcome assessment |
Incomplete outcome data addressed |
Selective reporting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sexton et al. [2] | 2011 | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk |
| da Costa et al. [3] | 2015 | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk |
| Frodge et al. [4] | 2008 | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk |
| Rosa et al. [7] | 2014 | low risk | unclear risk | unclear risk | unclear risk | unclear risk | low risk |
| Ma et al. [13] | 2015 | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk |
| Zhu et al. [14] | 2015 | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk |
| Oh et al. [15] | 2015 | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk |
| Miller et al. [16] | 2006 | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk |
| Ng et al. [17] | 2007 | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk |
| Scannapieco et al. [18] | 2007 | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk |
| Reinhardt et al. [19] | 2010 | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk |
| Noh et al. [20] | 2013 | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk |
| Kato et al. [21] | 2014 | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk |
| Liao et al. [22] | 2014 | low risk | unclear risk | unclear risk | low risk | low risk | low risk |
| Singh et al. [23] | 2014 | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk | low risk |
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