Table 5 Quality appraisal SR/MA
Author, year | ‘A priori’ Design | Duplicate study selection and data extraction | Comprehensive literature search performed | Status of publication used as an inclusion criterion | List of included and excluded studies provided | Characteristics of the included studies provided | Scientific quality of included studies assessed and documented | Scientific quality of included studies used appropriately in formulating conclusions | Appropriate methods to combine the findings of studies | Assessment of the likelihood of publication bias | Conflict of interest stated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aguilar 2005 [49] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | u | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
Aguilar 2007 [30] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | u | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
Andersen 2008 [43] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ |
Assiri 2013 [44] | ✓ | u | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | u | u | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
Baignent 2009 [28] | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
Cameron 2014 [46] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
Coleman 2012 [56] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Connolly 2013 [61] | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Cooper 2006 [42] | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | u | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Dogliotti 2014 [41] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Gandhi 2015 [54] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | u | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Halkes, 2008 [56] | ✓ | n/a | n/a | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
Hart 1999 [39] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | u | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Hart 2007 [40] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
He 1998 [29] | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
Leonardi-Bee 2005 [55] | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Lin 2015 [57] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Lip 2006 [45] | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | u | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Segal 2000 [38] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
Taylor 2001 [37] | ✓ | u | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | u | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Warkentin 2012 [57] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | u | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | n/a | ✓ | |
Zhou 2012 [52] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |