Table 4 Reporting and methodological quality
Quality Assessed | Study Design | Cohort & Cross sectional Studies | Case-Control | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Author, Year | Laaksi, 2007 | He, 2013 | Rafiq, 2018 | Sabetta, 2010 | Berry, 2011 | Lee, 2018 | Jovanovich, 2014 | Nanri, 2017 | |
Section/ Domain | |||||||||
Reporting Qualitya | Title, Abstract and Introduction | High | Fair | High | Fair | High | High | High | High |
Methods | High | High | High | High | High | High | High | High | |
Results | Low | High | Low | High | High | High | High | High | |
Discussion | Fair | Low | High | High | High | High | High | High | |
Other information | High | High | High | High | High | High | High | High | |
Overall | Low | Fair | Fair | High | High | High | High | High | |
Methodology Qualityb | Selection | High | High | High | High | High | High | High | High |
Misclassification | High | High | Low | High | High | Low | High | High | |
Detection | Fair | Low | Low | High | Low | Low | High | High | |
Confounding | Low | Low | High | Low | High | High | High | High | |
Other (Inappropriate sample size, attrition) | Low | Low | High | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | |